Johnsoniana: Life, Opinions, and Table-talk of Doctor JohnsonA. Boot, 1884 - 319 páginas |
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Página iii
... observed , delighted generations and will continue to delight posterity , he ascribed to " the mental enervation pro- duced by a constantly increasing solicitation of the attention to new works , mostly of the mushroom type , springing ...
... observed , delighted generations and will continue to delight posterity , he ascribed to " the mental enervation pro- duced by a constantly increasing solicitation of the attention to new works , mostly of the mushroom type , springing ...
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... observed that Johnson , while he was at Pembroke college , was caressed and loved by all about him , was a gay and frolicsome fellow , and passed there the happiest part of his life . " But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of ...
... observed that Johnson , while he was at Pembroke college , was caressed and loved by all about him , was a gay and frolicsome fellow , and passed there the happiest part of his life . " But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of ...
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... observed , may be true - but is nothing against the system . The members of an university may , for a season , be unmindful of their duty . I am arguing for the excellence of the institution . " On Boswell's observing to him that some ...
... observed , may be true - but is nothing against the system . The members of an university may , for a season , be unmindful of their duty . I am arguing for the excellence of the institution . " On Boswell's observing to him that some ...
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... observed , " is a disease that must be combated ; but I would not advise a rigid adherence to a particular plan of ... observe there is always something which she prefers to truth . ' ' Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of ...
... observed , " is a disease that must be combated ; but I would not advise a rigid adherence to a particular plan of ... observe there is always something which she prefers to truth . ' ' Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of ...
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... observed , " more is learned in public than in private schools , from emulation : there is the collision of mind with mind , or the radiation of many minds pointing to one centre . Though few boys make their own exercises , yet if a ...
... observed , " more is learned in public than in private schools , from emulation : there is the collision of mind with mind , or the radiation of many minds pointing to one centre . Though few boys make their own exercises , yet if a ...
Términos y frases comunes
advantage allowed answered appeared asked attention believe better Boswell called character church common consider conversation doubt drinking effect England English equally expressed fellow Garrick give given Goldsmith hand happy head hear human instance Italy John JOHNSON judge keep kind king knowledge known lady language laugh learning less literary live London look lord maintained manner master means mentioned merit mind nature never objections observed occasion once opinion particular perhaps person pleased poor present principles produced published reason remarked replied respect Scotland seemed society soon speak suppose sure talk tell thing thought told travels true truth whole wish woman wonder write written wrong young
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...