Johnsoniana: Life, Opinions, and Table-talk of Doctor JohnsonA. Boot, 1884 - 319 páginas |
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... he could not have read it more than twice . " Another anecdote , also reposing on the authority of his step - daughter ( who , it may be added , maintained to Boswell , in Johnson's presence , that there could be no doubt of.
... he could not have read it more than twice . " Another anecdote , also reposing on the authority of his step - daughter ( who , it may be added , maintained to Boswell , in Johnson's presence , that there could be no doubt of.
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... maintaining that they were merely arrangements of so many words ; and laughed at the universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge for sending forth collections of them , not only in Greek and Latin , but even in Syriac , Arabic , and other ...
... maintaining that they were merely arrangements of so many words ; and laughed at the universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge for sending forth collections of them , not only in Greek and Latin , but even in Syriac , Arabic , and other ...
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... maintained that a general diffusion of knowledge among a people was a disadvantage , for it made the vulgar rise above their humble sphere . JOHNSON . Sir , while knowledge is a distinction , those who are possessed of it will naturally ...
... maintained that a general diffusion of knowledge among a people was a disadvantage , for it made the vulgar rise above their humble sphere . JOHNSON . Sir , while knowledge is a distinction , those who are possessed of it will naturally ...
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... maintained that the fact of her husband's having been guilty of numberless infidelities released her from conjugal obligations , because they were reciprocal . JOHNSON . " This is miserable stuff , sir . To the contract of marriage ...
... maintained that the fact of her husband's having been guilty of numberless infidelities released her from conjugal obligations , because they were reciprocal . JOHNSON . " This is miserable stuff , sir . To the contract of marriage ...
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... maintaining sub- ordination of rank . " Sir , I would no more deprive a noble- man of his respect than of his money . I consider myself as acting a part in the great system of society , and I do to others as I would have them to do to ...
... maintaining sub- ordination of rank . " Sir , I would no more deprive a noble- man of his respect than of his money . I consider myself as acting a part in the great system of society , and I do to others as I would have them to do to ...
Términos y frases comunes
answered appeared asked Beauclerk believe better blank verse bookseller Boswell mentioned Boswell talked character church Colley Cibber common consider conversation David Garrick Dictionary dine drinking eminent England English exclaimed expressed fellow Garrick genius gentleman give Goldsmith happy honour human humour instance Jacobite JOHNSON king king of Prussia lady Langton language laugh learning Lichfield literary live London lord Lord Bute lord Chesterfield Lord Mansfield lord Monboddo madam mankind manner marriage means merit mind moral nature never observed occasion once opinion Pembroke college perhaps pleased poem poet poetry poor Pope praise pretty woman religion remarked replied Scotch Scotland Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds speak strong suppose sure tell thing thought Thrale tion told truth verses Whig wine wish woman wonder words write wrong
Pasajes populares
Página 260 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Página 194 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
Página 287 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Página 30 - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray that their understanding is not called in question.
Página 83 - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
Página 286 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Página 287 - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Página 84 - They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change ; a...
Página 16 - All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle...
Página 287 - Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock; and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the Essay on Criticism...