Macaulay's Life of Samuel JohnsonGinn, 1903 - 94 páginas |
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... admiration was unfeigned cannot be doubted ; for she was as poor as himself . She accepted , with a readiness which did her little 30 honour , the addresses of a suitor who might have been her son . The marriage , however , in spite of ...
... admiration was unfeigned cannot be doubted ; for she was as poor as himself . She accepted , with a readiness which did her little 30 honour , the addresses of a suitor who might have been her son . The marriage , however , in spite of ...
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... admirable imitations of Horace's Satires and Epistles had recently appeared , were in every hand , and were by many readers thought superior to the originals . What Pope had done for Horace , Johnson aspired to do for Juvenal . The ...
... admirable imitations of Horace's Satires and Epistles had recently appeared , were in every hand , and were by many readers thought superior to the originals . What Pope had done for Horace , Johnson aspired to do for Juvenal . The ...
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... admirable examination of Hamlet . But here praise must end . 10 It would be difficult to name a more slovenly , a more worthless edition of any great classic . The reader may turn over play after play without finding one happy ...
... admirable examination of Hamlet . But here praise must end . 10 It would be difficult to name a more slovenly , a more worthless edition of any great classic . The reader may turn over play after play without finding one happy ...
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... admiration and esteem . Johnson soon had an apartment at the brewery in Southwark , and a still more 15 pleasant apartment at the villa of his friends on Streatham Common . A large part of every year he passed in those abodes , abodes ...
... admiration and esteem . Johnson soon had an apartment at the brewery in Southwark , and a still more 15 pleasant apartment at the villa of his friends on Streatham Common . A large part of every year he passed in those abodes , abodes ...
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... admiration for the man to whom we owe so much instruction and amusement . While edition after edition of his book was coming forth , his son , as Mr. Croker tells us , was ashamed of it , and hated to hear it mentioned . This feeling ...
... admiration for the man to whom we owe so much instruction and amusement . While edition after edition of his book was coming forth , his son , as Mr. Croker tells us , was ashamed of it , and hated to hear it mentioned . This feeling ...
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Página 85 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 84 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Página 84 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 45 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all.
Página 50 - Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, .the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and...
Página 65 - Sir, that is all visionary. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases? ' SIR ADAM : ' But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the crown.
Página 83 - An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue;' and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs.
Página 8 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man ; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him.
Página 84 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 73 - All his books are written in a learned language, in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, in a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love, in a language in which nobody ever thinks.