Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 páginas |
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... attention . " Babies do not want , " said he , " to hear about babies ; they like to be told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds . " When in answer I would urge the nu- merous ...
... attention . " Babies do not want , " said he , " to hear about babies ; they like to be told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds . " When in answer I would urge the nu- merous ...
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... attention from the scholar ; no attention can be obtained from children without the infliction of pain , and pain is never remembered without resentment . " That something should be learned was , however , so certainly his opinion ...
... attention from the scholar ; no attention can be obtained from children without the infliction of pain , and pain is never remembered without resentment . " That something should be learned was , however , so certainly his opinion ...
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... attention of her infant auditor , who was then in bed with her , she got up , and dressing him before the usual time , sent him directly to call a favourite workman in the house , to whom she knew he would communicate the conversa- tion ...
... attention of her infant auditor , who was then in bed with her , she got up , and dressing him before the usual time , sent him directly to call a favourite workman in the house , to whom she knew he would communicate the conversa- tion ...
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... attention , and thought about Tom Thumb . " 37. Modern Politics . Modern politics fared no better . I was one time extoll- ing the character of a statesman , and expatiating on the skill required to direct the different currents ...
... attention , and thought about Tom Thumb . " 37. Modern Politics . Modern politics fared no better . I was one time extoll- ing the character of a statesman , and expatiating on the skill required to direct the different currents ...
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... attention than he had long been accustomed to , he had a rougher denun- ciation : " That woman , " cries Johnson , “ is like sour small beer , the beverage of her table , and produce of the wretched country she lives in ; like that ...
... attention than he had long been accustomed to , he had a rougher denun- ciation : " That woman , " cries Johnson , “ is like sour small beer , the beverage of her table , and produce of the wretched country she lives in ; like that ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 468 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 391 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Página 441 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Página 376 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 468 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Página 392 - 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 387 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Página 32 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Página 26 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Página 394 - 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...