Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, 1799 |
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Pagina 45
... Aetat . 3. ] Anecdotes of Johnson's childhood . 45 ' That the strength of his understanding , the accuracy of his dis- cernment , and ardour of his curiosity , might have been remarked from his infancy , by a diligent observer , there ...
... Aetat . 3. ] Anecdotes of Johnson's childhood . 45 ' That the strength of his understanding , the accuracy of his dis- cernment , and ardour of his curiosity , might have been remarked from his infancy , by a diligent observer , there ...
Pagina 65
... Aetat . 19. ] Johnson two years at home . And every beauty withers at the blast : Where e'er they fly their lovers ' ghosts pursue , Inflicting all those ills which once they knew ; Vexation , Fury , Jealousy , Despair , Vex ev'ry eye ...
... Aetat . 19. ] Johnson two years at home . And every beauty withers at the blast : Where e'er they fly their lovers ' ghosts pursue , Inflicting all those ills which once they knew ; Vexation , Fury , Jealousy , Despair , Vex ev'ry eye ...
Pagina 69
... Aetat . 19. ] The fifth of November . 69 after I came to college I waited upon him , and then staid away four . On the sixth , Mr. Jorden asked me why I had not attended . I answered I had been sliding in Christ- Church meadow ' . And ...
... Aetat . 19. ] The fifth of November . 69 after I came to college I waited upon him , and then staid away four . On the sixth , Mr. Jorden asked me why I had not attended . I answered I had been sliding in Christ- Church meadow ' . And ...
Pagina 70
... Aetat . 19 . solemnity at Pembroke College , and exercises upon the sub- ject of the day were required ' . Johnson neglected to per- form his , which is much to be regretted ; for his vivacity of imagination , and force of language ...
... Aetat . 19 . solemnity at Pembroke College , and exercises upon the sub- ject of the day were required ' . Johnson neglected to per- form his , which is much to be regretted ; for his vivacity of imagination , and force of language ...
Pagina 75
... Aetat . 20. ] Johnson an hypochondriack . 75 it to me was ' I did not then know how to manage it . ' His distress became so intolerable , that he applied to Dr. Swinfen , physician in Lichfield , his god - father , and put into his ...
... Aetat . 20. ] Johnson an hypochondriack . 75 it to me was ' I did not then know how to manage it . ' His distress became so intolerable , that he applied to Dr. Swinfen , physician in Lichfield , his god - father , and put into his ...
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Pagina 305 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Pagina 261 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Pagina 481 - I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I...
Pagina 304 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Pagina 304 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pagina 303 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Pagina 451 - When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he...
Pagina 524 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Pagina 235 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Pagina 460 - I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.