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, Volumen2 |
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Dr. Johnson was once much pleased with a remark made by General Paoli : - .
That it is impossible not to be afraid of death ; and that those who at the time of
dying are not afraid , are not thinking of death , but of applause , or something
else ...
Dr. Johnson was once much pleased with a remark made by General Paoli : - .
That it is impossible not to be afraid of death ; and that those who at the time of
dying are not afraid , are not thinking of death , but of applause , or something
else ...
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The common notion , therefore , seems to be erroneous ; and Shenstone's witty
remark on Divines trying to give the tree a jerk upon a deathbed , to make it lie
favourably , is not wellfounded . While Johnson and Mr. Boswell stood in calm ...
The common notion , therefore , seems to be erroneous ; and Shenstone's witty
remark on Divines trying to give the tree a jerk upon a deathbed , to make it lie
favourably , is not wellfounded . While Johnson and Mr. Boswell stood in calm ...
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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 . The chaplain of a late Bishop , whom I was to assist in writing some ...
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 . The chaplain of a late Bishop , whom I was to assist in writing some ...
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That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark : “ Each might his
several province well command , “ Would all but stoop to what they understand . ”
can -B . “ And his plays are good . " - J . “ Yes ; but that was his trade ; l'esprit du ...
That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark : “ Each might his
several province well command , “ Would all but stoop to what they understand . ”
can -B . “ And his plays are good . " - J . “ Yes ; but that was his trade ; l'esprit du ...
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Mr. Boswell goes on to remark , “ But there is in this Poem not only all that
Johnson -so well brings in view , but a power of the pathetick beyond almost any
example that I have seen . He who does not feel his nerves shaken , and his
heart ...
Mr. Boswell goes on to remark , “ But there is in this Poem not only all that
Johnson -so well brings in view , but a power of the pathetick beyond almost any
example that I have seen . He who does not feel his nerves shaken , and his
heart ...
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| Título | 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, Volumen2 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | J. Mawman, 1807 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 20 Abr. 2017 |
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