Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose Writings |
Comentarios de la gente - Escribir un comentario
No encontramos ningún comentario en los lugares habituales.
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
able action advantage allowed amusements appearance attain attention become believe brings cause character common condition considered continued conversation danger delight desire discover duties easily easy effect endeavour enjoy equally evil excellence expect eyes fame fancy favour fear feel force fortune frequently future gain give greater happen happiness hope hour human ideas idleness ignorance Illustrations imagination inclination interest kind knowledge known labour learning less lives look lost mankind means memory mind misery nature necessary necessity neglect never Numerous objects observed obtained once opinion ourselves pain pass passion performances perhaps pleasing pleasure poet possession practice praise present produce reason receive regard riches seems seldom sentiments sometimes soon success suffer superiority things thoughts tion truth understanding virtue wish writing young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 25 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such...
Página 170 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Página 244 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Página 228 - The accidental compositions of heterogeneous modes are dissolved by the chance which combined them; but the uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither admits increase, nor suffers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another, but the rock always continues in its place. The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
Página 130 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.
Página 126 - But, the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind.
Página 249 - He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
Página 26 - There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances. 'Let me remember (says Hale) when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.
Página 223 - 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.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose Writings Volumen1 de Library of thoughtful books |
| Autores | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston |
| Editor | William Alexander Clouston |
| Editor | J. Blackwood, 1875 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 31 Jul. 2006 |
| Largo | 298 páginas |
| Exportar cita | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |