Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Volumen1Clarendon Press, 1888 - 323 páginas |
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... questions of right or wrong every one could know what Johnson would do . Here there were no wanderings , no strayings to one side or to the other . There was the strait gate , and here was the narrow path leading to it . The gate he ...
... questions of right or wrong every one could know what Johnson would do . Here there were no wanderings , no strayings to one side or to the other . There was the strait gate , and here was the narrow path leading to it . The gate he ...
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... questions of poetry , of law , of theology and of philosophy . His attention never deserts him , ' and he never wearies the attention of his hearers . His talk ' is a 1 Boswell's Life of Johnson , iii . 230 . 3 Boswell's Life of Johnson ...
... questions of poetry , of law , of theology and of philosophy . His attention never deserts him , ' and he never wearies the attention of his hearers . His talk ' is a 1 Boswell's Life of Johnson , iii . 230 . 3 Boswell's Life of Johnson ...
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... question , he becomes able at dinner to say a little him- self ; and , as every great genius relaxes himself among his inferiors , meets with some who wonder how so young a man can talk so wisely . At At night he has a new feast ...
... question , he becomes able at dinner to say a little him- self ; and , as every great genius relaxes himself among his inferiors , meets with some who wonder how so young a man can talk so wisely . At At night he has a new feast ...
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... question , he becomes able at dinner to say a little himself ; and as every great genius relaxes himself among his inferiors , meets with some who wonder how so young a man can talk so wisely . At night he has a new feast prepared for ...
... question , he becomes able at dinner to say a little himself ; and as every great genius relaxes himself among his inferiors , meets with some who wonder how so young a man can talk so wisely . At night he has a new feast prepared for ...
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... questions that might exercise the wit , without engaging the passions . But whether it be that small things make mean men proud and vanity catches small occasions ; or that all contrariety of opinion , even in those that can defend it ...
... questions that might exercise the wit , without engaging the passions . But whether it be that small things make mean men proud and vanity catches small occasions ; or that all contrariety of opinion , even in those that can defend it ...
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Adventurer amusements attention believe better BOSWELL Boswell's censure character common commonly consider contempt conversation crime D'Arblay's Diary death delight desire dignity distress dreadful endeavour equally evil expected Falstaff fame fancy favour fear feel folly genius give happiness hear honour hope human idle Idler ignorance imagination inclination JAMES MACPHERSON knowledge labour lady learning less Lichfield Cathedral live Lord mankind merit mind misery moral nation nature never observed once opinion ourselves pain Paradise Lost passions perhaps Piozzi Letters Piozzi's Anecdotes pleased pleasure poverty praise pretty woman Pupillage Rambler Rasselas reason religion rich Samuel Johnson seldom Soame Jenyns sorrow Streatham suffer suppose surely talk tell things thought tion truth vanity vice viii virtue Wisdom of Samuel wise wish Wit and Wisdom write
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Página 43 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Página 42 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 156 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
Página 42 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Página 288 - No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn.
Página 30 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but...
Página 176 - DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Página 155 - Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills Affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor...
Página 316 - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world...
Página 119 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...