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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... write down every thing that you remember , for you cannot judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately while the impression is fresh , for it will not be the same a week afterwards . A man may write upon a card a day all ...
... write down every thing that you remember , for you cannot judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately while the impression is fresh , for it will not be the same a week afterwards . A man may write upon a card a day all ...
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... writer ; but that he was , nevertheless , a benevolent good man . JOHNSON . " We can have no dependance upon that instinctive , that consitutional goodness which is not founded upon principle . I grant you that such a man may be a very ...
... writer ; but that he was , nevertheless , a benevolent good man . JOHNSON . " We can have no dependance upon that instinctive , that consitutional goodness which is not founded upon principle . I grant you that such a man may be a very ...
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... writer ; they supply sources of invention , and keep every part in its proper place . " What I like least is your account of manners . in your parish ; from which I find that it has been long neglected by the parson . The Dean of ...
... writer ; they supply sources of invention , and keep every part in its proper place . " What I like least is your account of manners . in your parish ; from which I find that it has been long neglected by the parson . The Dean of ...
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... writer has given us a series of reflections on his own life ; but his sentiments are so noble , his morality so sublime , that his meditations are universally admired . In the third class we have some others of tolerable cre- dit , who ...
... writer has given us a series of reflections on his own life ; but his sentiments are so noble , his morality so sublime , that his meditations are universally admired . In the third class we have some others of tolerable cre- dit , who ...
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... wish to live by his labours ; but he should write so as he may live by them , not so as he may be knocked on the head . would advise him to be at Calais before he pub- I lishes his history of the present age . A fo- LITERATURE . 87.
... wish to live by his labours ; but he should write so as he may live by them , not so as he may be knocked on the head . would advise him to be at Calais before he pub- I lishes his history of the present age . A fo- LITERATURE . 87.
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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