Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 páginas |
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... least , at an end . " This , I fear , was , however , at best a momentary refuge , found out by perverseness . No man knew better than Johnson in how many nameless and numberless actions behaviour consists : actions which can scarcely ...
... least , at an end . " This , I fear , was , however , at best a momentary refuge , found out by perverseness . No man knew better than Johnson in how many nameless and numberless actions behaviour consists : actions which can scarcely ...
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... least to be made to comprehend such things . He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere , et quæ sit poterit cognoscere virtus . - Sup- pose , sir , that the angel of this auspicious youth , foreseeing the many virtues , which made ...
... least to be made to comprehend such things . He was then old enough acta parentum jam legere , et quæ sit poterit cognoscere virtus . - Sup- pose , sir , that the angel of this auspicious youth , foreseeing the many virtues , which made ...
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... least one thing worth your pains ; so if you will get the pen and ink , I will repeat to you Anacreon's Dove directly ; but tell at the same time , that as I never was struck with any thing in the Greek language till I read that , so I ...
... least one thing worth your pains ; so if you will get the pen and ink , I will repeat to you Anacreon's Dove directly ; but tell at the same time , that as I never was struck with any thing in the Greek language till I read that , so I ...
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... least to teach you one truth ; and learn by this perpetual echo of even unappre- hended distress , how historians magnify events expected , or calamities endured ; when you know they are at this very moment collecting all the big words ...
... least to teach you one truth ; and learn by this perpetual echo of even unappre- hended distress , how historians magnify events expected , or calamities endured ; when you know they are at this very moment collecting all the big words ...
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... least , entreated one of the company . " I do allow him , sir , " replied Johnson , " just enough to light him to hell . ” Of a Jamaica gentleman , then lately dead- - " He will not , whither he is now gone , " said Johnson , “ find ...
... least , entreated one of the company . " I do allow him , sir , " replied Johnson , " just enough to light him to hell . ” Of a Jamaica gentleman , then lately dead- - " He will not , whither he is now gone , " said Johnson , “ find ...
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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...