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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... Poets . The people would not have suffered it . They disputed with good hu- mour upon their fanciful theories , because they were not interested in the truth of them ; when a man has nothing to lose , he may be in good hu- mour with his ...
... Poets . The people would not have suffered it . They disputed with good hu- mour upon their fanciful theories , because they were not interested in the truth of them ; when a man has nothing to lose , he may be in good hu- mour with his ...
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... poets had taken up the places in the Temple of Fame ; so that as but a few at any period could possess poetical reputation , a man of genius could now hardly acquire it . “ That ( said Johnson ) is one of the most sensible things I have ...
... poets had taken up the places in the Temple of Fame ; so that as but a few at any period could possess poetical reputation , a man of genius could now hardly acquire it . “ That ( said Johnson ) is one of the most sensible things I have ...
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... Poems , which his Lordship had published with his name , as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame . He was of opinion , that when a man of rank appeared in that character , he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed ...
... Poems , which his Lordship had published with his name , as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame . He was of opinion , that when a man of rank appeared in that character , he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed ...
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... poets , Johnson remarked , that the advice given to Diomed by his father , when he sent him to the Trojan war , was the noblest ex- hortation that could be instanced in any heathen writer , and comprised in a single line : Αιεν ...
... poets , Johnson remarked , that the advice given to Diomed by his father , when he sent him to the Trojan war , was the noblest ex- hortation that could be instanced in any heathen writer , and comprised in a single line : Αιεν ...
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... poems . He may make an excellent shoemaker , but he can never make a good poet . A school - boy's exercise may be a pretty thing for a school - boy ; but it is no treat for a man . " Speaking of the old Earl of Cork and Orrery , he said ...
... poems . He may make an excellent shoemaker , but he can never make a good poet . A school - boy's exercise may be a pretty thing for a school - boy ; but it is no treat for a man . " Speaking of the old Earl of Cork and Orrery , he said ...
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