Doctor Johnson: His Life, Works & Table TalkT. F. Unwin, 1884 - 156 páginas |
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... writings alone , few wreaths would now be laid on his tomb . His name is indeed known , wherever the English language is spoken , as the author of the Dic- tionary ; but his other works , whether in prose or verse , have not many ...
... writings alone , few wreaths would now be laid on his tomb . His name is indeed known , wherever the English language is spoken , as the author of the Dic- tionary ; but his other works , whether in prose or verse , have not many ...
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... time . This position he held as much by his moral excellence as by his intellectual power , and by his conversation more than by writings a position unique in the his- tory of modern times . Not Dryden , not Addison ΙΟ Doctor Johnson .
... time . This position he held as much by his moral excellence as by his intellectual power , and by his conversation more than by writings a position unique in the his- tory of modern times . Not Dryden , not Addison ΙΟ Doctor Johnson .
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... writing anything . He answered , he was not , for he had pretty well told the world what he knew , and must now read to acquire more knowledge . The king then said , " I do not think that you borrow much from anybody , " as if urging ...
... writing anything . He answered , he was not , for he had pretty well told the world what he knew , and must now read to acquire more knowledge . The king then said , " I do not think that you borrow much from anybody , " as if urging ...
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... writing for bread . For the booksellers he wrote reviews , prefaces , biographies , essays , and miscellaneous pieces , in prose and verse , for very small remu- neration . For a time he assisted Guthrie , Cave's principal literary hack ...
... writing for bread . For the booksellers he wrote reviews , prefaces , biographies , essays , and miscellaneous pieces , in prose and verse , for very small remu- neration . For a time he assisted Guthrie , Cave's principal literary hack ...
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... , and they have excellences , both of thought and expression , in which the lighter literature of our time is generally de- ficient . With all their faults of style the prose writings have a force and felicity of diction. 2 *
... , and they have excellences , both of thought and expression , in which the lighter literature of our time is generally de- ficient . With all their faults of style the prose writings have a force and felicity of diction. 2 *
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Página 38 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Página 39 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 40 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable...
Página 29 - The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely Want retired to die.
Página 111 - ... degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man but a very impudent dog indeed can as freely command what is in another man's house as if it were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are.
Página 57 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Página 18 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Página 50 - It is always an ignorant, lazy, or cowardly acquiescence in a false appearance of excellence, and proceeds not from consciousness of our attainments, but insensibility of our wants, Nothing can be great which is not right. Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Página 90 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Página 47 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...