Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen2J. Mawman, 1807 |
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... never could persevere . " The great thing to be recorded ( said he ) is the state of your own mind ; and you should write down every thing that you remember , for you cannot judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately ...
... never could persevere . " The great thing to be recorded ( said he ) is the state of your own mind ; and you should write down every thing that you remember , for you cannot judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately ...
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... never experi- enced any where else . But , as Xerxes wept when he viewed his immense army , and consi- dered that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards , so it went to my heart to consider that there ...
... never experi- enced any where else . But , as Xerxes wept when he viewed his immense army , and consi- dered that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards , so it went to my heart to consider that there ...
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... never had any thing to do with the stage . " - " Why , Sir ( said Johnson ) , our tastes greatly alter . The lad does not care for the child's rattle , and the old man does not care for the young man's mistress . " - " GOLDSMITH . 46 ...
... never had any thing to do with the stage . " - " Why , Sir ( said Johnson ) , our tastes greatly alter . The lad does not care for the child's rattle , and the old man does not care for the young man's mistress . " - " GOLDSMITH . 46 ...
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... never happy for the present , is so true , that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while . Life is a progress from want to want , not from enjoyment to enjoyment . " At another time he maintained ...
... never happy for the present , is so true , that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while . Life is a progress from want to want , not from enjoyment to enjoyment . " At another time he maintained ...
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... never passed that week in his life which he would wish to repeat , were an angel to make the proposal to him . DEATH . in a con- MR . BOSWELL tells us , that he once , versation with Johnson , and other company , ex- pressed a horror at ...
... never passed that week in his life which he would wish to repeat , were an angel to make the proposal to him . DEATH . in a con- MR . BOSWELL tells us , that he once , versation with Johnson , and other company , ex- pressed a horror at ...
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admiration afraid allow ancient appeared asked Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe better Bishop blank verse Burke Cawston character Christian Church Church of England Church of Scotland Cibber clergyman consider conversation death Divinity eminent English expressed fear Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happiness History of China hope human Hume humour imagination infidel John Johnson observed language learning literary lived Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Camden Madam maintained mankind manner ment merit mind miracles nature neral never objections occasion once opinion passion perhaps philosophers pleased poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise punishment racter religion Scotland Scripture sermons Shakspeare shew Shiels Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir said Johnson style suppose sure talked tell Theocritus thing Thirty-nine Articles thought tion told translation true truth uneasy verse Virgil wish wonder write written wrote