Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].John Wilson Croker 1836 |
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Pagina 10
... turn back the cur- rent of hereditary dignity to its fountain , and raise him to a higher rank of peer- age , whilst he enriched the family with a new one If , amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honour and prosperity ...
... turn back the cur- rent of hereditary dignity to its fountain , and raise him to a higher rank of peer- age , whilst he enriched the family with a new one If , amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honour and prosperity ...
Pagina 14
... turning to Mr. Thrale , " rather give away money than porter ? " 17. Reading . Mr. Johnson had never , by his own account , been a close student , and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket , to be read ...
... turning to Mr. Thrale , " rather give away money than porter ? " 17. Reading . Mr. Johnson had never , by his own account , been a close student , and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket , to be read ...
Pagina 17
... turn sour with standing a while , for want of body , as we call it . " 23. Style of Swift . A friend was praising the style of Dr. Swift ; Mr. Johnson did not find himself in the humour to agree with him the critic was driven from one ...
... turn sour with standing a while , for want of body , as we call it . " 23. Style of Swift . A friend was praising the style of Dr. Swift ; Mr. Johnson did not find himself in the humour to agree with him the critic was driven from one ...
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... turn my view , All is strange , yet nothing new : Endless labour all along , Endless labour to be wrong ; Phrase that Time has flung away ; Uncouth words in disarray , Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet , Ode , and elegy , and sonnet ...
... turn my view , All is strange , yet nothing new : Endless labour all along , Endless labour to be wrong ; Phrase that Time has flung away ; Uncouth words in disarray , Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet , Ode , and elegy , and sonnet ...
Pagina 34
... with the works of the greatest masters , and never feel the slightest disposition to turn them if their backs were outermost , unless it might be for the sake of telling Sir Joshua that 34 JOHNSONIANA . Human Life, 30 47 63 107.
... with the works of the greatest masters , and never feel the slightest disposition to turn them if their backs were outermost , unless it might be for the sake of telling Sir Joshua that 34 JOHNSONIANA . Human Life, 30 47 63 107.
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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...