Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... talked what he had to say , and did not expect an answer ; or , if occasion required it , was mute , officious , and ever complying . . . . There Johnson sat every morning , receiving visits , hearing the topics of the day , and ...
... talked what he had to say , and did not expect an answer ; or , if occasion required it , was mute , officious , and ever complying . . . . There Johnson sat every morning , receiving visits , hearing the topics of the day , and ...
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... talked of the mode adopted by some to rise in the world , by courting great men , and asked him whether he had ever sub- mitted to it . JOHNSON . ' Why , Sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently ...
... talked of the mode adopted by some to rise in the world , by courting great men , and asked him whether he had ever sub- mitted to it . JOHNSON . ' Why , Sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently ...
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... talked to him a great deal of what I had seen in Corsica , and of my intention to publish an account of it . He encouraged me by saying , ' You cannot go to the bottom of the subject ; but all that you tell us will be new to us . Give ...
... talked to him a great deal of what I had seen in Corsica , and of my intention to publish an account of it . He encouraged me by saying , ' You cannot go to the bottom of the subject ; but all that you tell us will be new to us . Give ...
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... talked of making verses , and observed , ' The great diffi- culty is to know when you have made good ones . When composing , I have generally had them in my mind , perhaps fifty at a time , walking up and down in my room ; and then I ...
... talked of making verses , and observed , ' The great diffi- culty is to know when you have made good ones . When composing , I have generally had them in my mind , perhaps fifty at a time , walking up and down in my room ; and then I ...
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... talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth , which he seemed to have read , and asked Johnson what he thought of it . Johnson answered , ' Warburton has most general , most scholastick learning ; Lowth is the more correct ...
... talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth , which he seemed to have read , and asked Johnson what he thought of it . Johnson answered , ' Warburton has most general , most scholastick learning ; Lowth is the more correct ...
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Էջ 87 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Էջ 80 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Էջ 344 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Էջ 40 - Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room.
Էջ 35 - When asked by another friend, at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered, " No, Sir. When the king had said it, it was to be so. It was not for me to bandy civilities with my sovereign.
Էջ 366 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Էջ 451 - You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please.
Էջ 121 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Էջ 5 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Էջ 5 - He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, . With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.