The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen54 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 64
Página 7
6 years ago , in the habit of laughing most unmercifully , stated , on the authority of Garrick , that Johnson , while sitting in a coffee- house at Oxford , about the time of his doctor's degree , used some contemptuous expressions ...
6 years ago , in the habit of laughing most unmercifully , stated , on the authority of Garrick , that Johnson , while sitting in a coffee- house at Oxford , about the time of his doctor's degree , used some contemptuous expressions ...
Página 12
The expression , ' he says , seems not quite clear . ' And he proceeds to talk about the generation of insects - about bursting into gaudier life - and Heaven knows what . * 6 There is a still stranger instance of the editor's talent ...
The expression , ' he says , seems not quite clear . ' And he proceeds to talk about the generation of insects - about bursting into gaudier life - and Heaven knows what . * 6 There is a still stranger instance of the editor's talent ...
Página 16
Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore . He was the laughing - stock of the whole of that brilliant society which has owed to him the greater part of its fame . He was always laying himself at the feet of some ...
Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore . He was the laughing - stock of the whole of that brilliant society which has owed to him the greater part of its fame . He was always laying himself at the feet of some ...
Página 19
All the world reads it : all the world delights in it : yet we do not remember ever to have read or ever to have heard any expression of respect and admiration for the man to whom we owe so much instruction and amusement .
All the world reads it : all the world delights in it : yet we do not remember ever to have read or ever to have heard any expression of respect and admiration for the man to whom we owe so much instruction and amusement .
Página 30
He had previously put expressions very similar into the mouth of Rasselas . It is amusing to contrast these passages with the torrents of raving abuse which he poured forth against the Long Parliament and the American Congress .
He had previously put expressions very similar into the mouth of Rasselas . It is amusing to contrast these passages with the torrents of raving abuse which he poured forth against the Long Parliament and the American Congress .
Comentarios de la gente - Escribir un comentario
Las opiniones no están verificadas, pero Google revisa que no haya contenido falso y lo quita si lo identifica
Crítica de los usuarios - Marcar como inapropiado
In a review article published in 1831 Carlyle noted: “The state of society, in our days, is of all possible states the least unconscious one: this is specifically the Era when all manner of Inquieries into what was once the unfelt, involuntary sphere of man’s existence … occupy the whole domain of thought. … Never since the beginning of Time, was there … so intensly self conscious a Society. Our whole relations to the Universe and to our fellow man have become an Inquiry, a Doubt."
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
according admitted appear become believe boards called cause character Church circumstances common conduct conscience consequences considerable considered course criticism Croker direct doubt duty edition effect England English equally evidence evil existence expression fact feeling force give hand head House human important individual instance interest Italy Johnson kind king land learning least less letters living London look Lord manner matter means measure ment mind moral nature necessary never object observations opinion original Parliament party passed persons practice present principle produce published punishment question reason remarks rent respect result rule says seems sense society spirit supposed taken taste thing thought tion true truth University vols whole writer
Pasajes populares
Página 4 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
Página 3 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. By T. BOWDLEB, Esq. FRS New Edition, in Volumes for the Pocket ; with 36 Wood Engravings, from Designs by Smirke, Howard, and other Artists.
Página 20 - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
Página 87 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Página 24 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches; we see the heavy form rolling; we hear it puffing; and then comes the " Why, sir !
Página 86 - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Página 433 - The way, hardly discernible in gloom, runs close by the mouth of the burning pit, which sends forth its flames, its noisome smoke, and its hideous shapes, to terrify the adventurer. Thence he goes on, amidst the snares and pitfalls, with the mangled bodies of those who have perished lying in the ditch by his side. At the end...
Página 15 - Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues. Alas ! sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
Página 2 - We arc not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. 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 438 - I walked," says he, with his own peculiar eloquence, to a neighbouring town ; and sat down upon a settle in the street, and fell into a very deep pause about the most fearful state my sin had brought me to ; and after long musing, I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light; and as if the very stones in the street, and tiles upon the houses, did band themselves against me.