Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].John Wilson Croker 1836 |
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Pagina 16
... true , " said he ; " but that is no reason for supposing Congreve is to stand in competition 1 If this opinion on the republication of " The Rehearsal " be correct , it must , -as sometimes happens - have fallen and risen again . The ...
... true , " said he ; " but that is no reason for supposing Congreve is to stand in competition 1 If this opinion on the republication of " The Rehearsal " be correct , it must , -as sometimes happens - have fallen and risen again . The ...
Pagina 17
... true ; but remember that , taking the compositions of Young in general , they are but like bright stepping - stones over a miry road . Young froths , and foams , and bubbles sometimes very vigorously ; but we must not compare the noise ...
... true ; but remember that , taking the compositions of Young in general , they are but like bright stepping - stones over a miry road . Young froths , and foams , and bubbles sometimes very vigorously ; but we must not compare the noise ...
Pagina 23
... true gratitude of a wit , ridiculed the master of the house before I had left it an hour , " has been falsely printed in many papers since his death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August , 1772 , not neglecting the ...
... true gratitude of a wit , ridiculed the master of the house before I had left it an hour , " has been falsely printed in many papers since his death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August , 1772 , not neglecting the ...
Pagina 28
... condemn a man for saying what we know to be true , only because it is so . Few things which pass well enough with others would do with him he had been a great reader of Mandeville , Dron & Engrad by Cha ? J. Smith from a 28 JOHNSONIANA .
... condemn a man for saying what we know to be true , only because it is so . Few things which pass well enough with others would do with him he had been a great reader of Mandeville , Dron & Engrad by Cha ? J. Smith from a 28 JOHNSONIANA .
Pagina 30
... true . " Heroic vir- tues , " said he , " are the bons mots of life : they do not appear often , and when they do appear are too much prized , I think ; like the aloe - tree , which shoots and flowers once in a hundred years . " 44 ...
... true . " Heroic vir- tues , " said he , " are the bons mots of life : they do not appear often , and when they do appear are too much prized , I think ; like the aloe - tree , which shoots and flowers once in a hundred years . " 44 ...
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Abbé Raynal acquaintance ALBEMARLE STREET ANECDOTES answer asked better Bishop Percy Bolt Court Boswell Brocklesby Burney called character conversation David Garrick dear death delight desired dinner Doctor expressed favour favourite fear Frank Barber Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith hated hear heard heart honour Hoole hope humour James Boswell knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield literary lived look Lord Lord Lyttelton loved Lucy Porter Madam manner mind Miss morning nature never observed occasion once opinion Parr perhaps person pleased pleasure Poets poor Portrait praise recollect religion remember repeated replied Samuel Johnson says Johnson seemed Seward Shakspeare Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds speak story Strahan Streatham suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale told took truth verses virtue Whig wish words write written
Populaire passages
Pagina 388 - 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...
Pagina 467 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Pagina 439 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Pagina 373 - 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...
Pagina 467 - 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...
Pagina 384 - 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.
Pagina 391 - 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.
Pagina 315 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Pagina 390 - 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.
Pagina 384 - Whoever considers the weakness both of himself and others, will not long want persuasives to forgiveness. We know not to what degree of malignity any injury is to be imputed ; or how much its guilt, if we were to inspect the mind of him that committed it, would be extenuated by mistake, precipitance, or negligence ; we cannot be certain...