Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Volumen1Clarendon Press, 1888 - 323 páginas |
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... thing . The Empress of Russia has ordered the Rambler to be translated into the Russian language ; so I shall be read on the banks of the Wolga . Horace boasts that his fame would extend as far as the banks of the Rhone now the Wolga is ...
... thing . The Empress of Russia has ordered the Rambler to be translated into the Russian language ; so I shall be read on the banks of the Wolga . Horace boasts that his fame would extend as far as the banks of the Rhone now the Wolga is ...
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... thing of all is to sit down and whine . It is of small things that life is made up , and it is in these small things , and in them alone , that we can find such happiness as we are allowed here on earth to attain . He would never have ...
... thing of all is to sit down and whine . It is of small things that life is made up , and it is in these small things , and in them alone , that we can find such happiness as we are allowed here on earth to attain . He would never have ...
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... things without disgracing them- selves ; a man cannot except with fiddling . ' He will allow no one ' to think with a dejected indifference of the works of art , and the pleasures of life , because life is uncertain and short ' . ' ' If ...
... things without disgracing them- selves ; a man cannot except with fiddling . ' He will allow no one ' to think with a dejected indifference of the works of art , and the pleasures of life , because life is uncertain and short ' . ' ' If ...
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... things on which the public thinks long , it commonly attains to think right ' The world , ' he says , ' has always a right to be regarded . ' ' The man who threatens it is always ridiculous 5 ? While he is thus ready to listen to the ...
... things on which the public thinks long , it commonly attains to think right ' The world , ' he says , ' has always a right to be regarded . ' ' The man who threatens it is always ridiculous 5 ? While he is thus ready to listen to the ...
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... things anger him more than the idle praise of some golden age either in the past or in the wilds of the world . He scoffs at Lord Monboddo's belief in the superiority of our ancestors and at Rousseau's praises of savage life . ' Honesty ...
... things anger him more than the idle praise of some golden age either in the past or in the wilds of the world . He scoffs at Lord Monboddo's belief in the superiority of our ancestors and at Rousseau's praises of savage life . ' Honesty ...
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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...