The Life of Samuel Johnson: March 19, 1776-Dec. 13, 1784I. Pitman & Sons, 1907 - 1172 páginas |
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... reason he satirised statuary . " Painting ( said he ) consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect ; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble , to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man . The value of ...
... reason he satirised statuary . " Painting ( said he ) consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect ; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble , to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man . The value of ...
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... reason to believe , on the same authority , participated in the guilt of what the enthusiasts of our immortal bard deem almost a species of sacrilege . After dinner Dr. Johnson wrote a letter to Mrs. Thrale on the death of her son . I ...
... reason to believe , on the same authority , participated in the guilt of what the enthusiasts of our immortal bard deem almost a species of sacrilege . After dinner Dr. Johnson wrote a letter to Mrs. Thrale on the death of her son . I ...
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... reason for their marrying - the mechanical reason . " BOSWELL : " Why , that is a strong one . But does not imagination make it much more important than it is in reality ? Is it not , to a certain degree , a delusion in us as well as in ...
... reason for their marrying - the mechanical reason . " BOSWELL : " Why , that is a strong one . But does not imagination make it much more important than it is in reality ? Is it not , to a certain degree , a delusion in us as well as in ...
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... reason of this ; Why , Sir , you have Edinburgh , where the gentlemen from all your counties meet , and which is not so large but they are all known . There is no such common place of collection in England , except London , where , from ...
... reason of this ; Why , Sir , you have Edinburgh , where the gentlemen from all your counties meet , and which is not so large but they are all known . There is no such common place of collection in England , except London , where , from ...
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... reason for his returning speedily to London , it was resolved that we should set out after dinner . A few of Dr. Taylor's neighbours were his guests that day . Dr. Johnson talked with approbation of one who had attained to the state of ...
... reason for his returning speedily to London , it was resolved that we should set out after dinner . A few of Dr. Taylor's neighbours were his guests that day . Dr. Johnson talked with approbation of one who had attained to the state of ...
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Página 585 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 950 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Página 717 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 646 - Pray give me leave, Sir; — It is better here — A little of the brown— Some fat, Sir— A little of the stuffing — Some gravy — Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter— Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange ; or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest." — " Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir...
Página 942 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Página 562 - Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.
Página 950 - Tis that which we all see and know." Any one. better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
Página 848 - Poor stuff! No Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Página 582 - It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.
Página 752 - Johnson should forbid me to drink tea, I would comply, as I should feel the restraint only twice a day; but little variations in narrative must happen a thousand times a day, if one is not perpetually watching.' JOHNSON. 'Well, Madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.