Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 páginas |
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... never read them . " Mrs. Barbauld , however , had his best praise , and deserved it : no man was more struck than Mr. Johnson with voluntary descent from possible splendour to painful duty . 6. Dreams and Ghosts . I have heard him ...
... never read them . " Mrs. Barbauld , however , had his best praise , and deserved it : no man was more struck than Mr. Johnson with voluntary descent from possible splendour to painful duty . 6. Dreams and Ghosts . I have heard him ...
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... never have so loved his mother when a man , had she not given him coffee she could ill afford , to gratify his appetite when a boy . " " If you had had children , sir , " said I , " would you have taught them anything ? " " I hope ...
... never have so loved his mother when a man , had she not given him coffee she could ill afford , to gratify his appetite when a boy . " " If you had had children , sir , " said I , " would you have taught them anything ? " " I hope ...
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... never respect them : I did not respect my own mother , though I loved her : and one day , when in anger she called me a puppy , I asked her if she knew what they called a puppy's mother ? ” We were talking of a young fellow who used to ...
... never respect them : I did not respect my own mother , though I loved her : and one day , when in anger she called me a puppy , I asked her if she knew what they called a puppy's mother ? ” We were talking of a young fellow who used to ...
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... never was struck with any thing in the Greek language till I read that , so I never read anything in the same language since , that pleased me as much . I hope my translation , " continued he , “ is not worse than that of Frank Fawkes ...
... never was struck with any thing in the Greek language till I read that , so I never read anything in the same language since , that pleased me as much . I hope my translation , " continued he , “ is not worse than that of Frank Fawkes ...
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... never could find time to make an end of them before I was sixty- eight . " 15. Johnson's Portrait by Himself . He ... never , by his own account , been a close student , and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their ...
... never could find time to make an end of them before I was sixty- eight . " 15. Johnson's Portrait by Himself . He ... never , by his own account , been a close student , and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their ...
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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...