 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 páginas
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...poetry he was never diverted. If conversation offered anything that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expression... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 páginas
...more delightful amusements.' Johnson's Works, iv. 145. Of Pope Johnson wrote (ib. viii. 321) :—' To make verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last. ... He was one of those few whose labour is their pleasure.' Thomas Carlyle, in 1824, speaking of writing,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 páginas
...more delightful amusements.' Johnson's Works, iv. 145. Of Pope Johnson wrote (ib. viii. 321) : — ' To make verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last. . . . He was one of those few whose labour is their pleasure.' Thomas Carlyle, in 1824, speaking of... | |
 | Alexander Oliver - 1892 - 198 páginas
...figures, truths, — whatever indeed you may think useful for the pulpit. Dr. Johnson says of Pope : " He considered poetry as the business of his life,...poetry he was never diverted. If conversation offered anything that could be improved, he committed it to paper; if a thought or perhaps an expression more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 páginas
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information; he consulted the living as well as the dead; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...was his first labour, and to mend them was his last. it to paper; if a thought, or perhaps an expression more happy than was common, rose to his mind, he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 páginas
...intelligence, 10 and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...poetry he was never diverted. If conversation offered anything that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expression... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 páginas
...intelligence, 10 and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...occupation, he followed it with constancy ; to make y. verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last. From his attention to poetry he was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...attained. He considered poetry as the business of his life 5, and, however he might seem to lament his occupation, he when he was young ; his imagination larch's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 628 páginas
...something greater than it knows, always endeavouring more than it can do. . . . He considered poetry ast he business of his life ; and however he might seem to...From his attention to poetry he was never -diverted." — Johnson's "Life of Pope." it to him, supposing that he knew of the republication. To my surprise,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 694 páginas
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information; he consulted the living as well as the dead; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...poetry he was never diverted. If conversation offered anything that could be improved, he committed it to paper; if a thought, or perhaps an expression more... | |
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These benefits of nature he improved by incessant and unwearied diligence; he had recourse to every source of intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends,... 
