Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... Hume , Johnson , Gold- smith , Garrick , Horace Walpole , Wilkes , and perhaps Reynolds , among Englishmen . He had twice at least received a letter from the Earl of Chatham . sarcastical 14 Boswell talks stuff . [ A.D. 1766 . sarcastical.
... Hume , Johnson , Gold- smith , Garrick , Horace Walpole , Wilkes , and perhaps Reynolds , among Englishmen . He had twice at least received a letter from the Earl of Chatham . sarcastical 14 Boswell talks stuff . [ A.D. 1766 . sarcastical.
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... Horace Walpole , writing of the Prince at the age of nineteen , says ( Journal of the Reign of George III , ii . 503 ) : — ' Nothing was coarser than his con- versation and phrases ; and it made men smile to find that in the palace of ...
... Horace Walpole , writing of the Prince at the age of nineteen , says ( Journal of the Reign of George III , ii . 503 ) : — ' Nothing was coarser than his con- versation and phrases ; and it made men smile to find that in the palace of ...
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... Horace Walpole ( Letters iii . 372 ) , writing on Jan. 3 , 1761 , said : - ' Would you believe , what I know is fact , that Dr. Hill earned fifteen guineas a week by working for wholesale dealers ? He was at once employed on six ...
... Horace Walpole ( Letters iii . 372 ) , writing on Jan. 3 , 1761 , said : - ' Would you believe , what I know is fact , that Dr. Hill earned fifteen guineas a week by working for wholesale dealers ? He was at once employed on six ...
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... Horace Walpole to Gray on Feb. 18 , 1768 ( Letters , v . 85 ) . The author is a strange being , and has a rage of knowing everybody that ever was talked of . He forced himself upon me at Paris in spite of my teeth and my doors . ' To ...
... Horace Walpole to Gray on Feb. 18 , 1768 ( Letters , v . 85 ) . The author is a strange being , and has a rage of knowing everybody that ever was talked of . He forced himself upon me at Paris in spite of my teeth and my doors . ' To ...
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... Horace Walpole ( Memoirs of the Reign of George III , ii . 15 ) , writing of the summer of 1764 , says : -Two hundred informations were filed against printers ; a larger num- ber than had been prosecuted in the whole thirty - three ...
... Horace Walpole ( Memoirs of the Reign of George III , ii . 15 ) , writing of the summer of 1764 , says : -Two hundred informations were filed against printers ; a larger num- ber than had been prosecuted in the whole thirty - three ...
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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 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 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 166 - Goldsmith's Life of Parnell2 is poor ; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor materials ; for nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Էջ 319 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," " When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Էջ 86 - Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Էջ 42 - Prologue to his play, with the hopes of which he had been flattered; but it was strongly suspected that he was fretting with chagrin and envy at the singular honour Dr. Johnson had lately enjoyed. At length, the frankness and simplicity of his natural character prevailed. He sprung from the...
Էջ 327 - He attacked Gray, calling him " a dull fellow." BOSWELL : " I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company ; but surely he was not dull in poetry." JOHNSON : " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where.' He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet.
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.