The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, Volume 11807 |
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Pagina 13
... wonder , Sir , you have not more pleasure in writing than in not writing . " JOHNSON . " Sir , you may wonder . " He talked of making verses , and observed , " The great difficulty is , to know when you have made good ones . When ...
... wonder , Sir , you have not more pleasure in writing than in not writing . " JOHNSON . " Sir , you may wonder . " He talked of making verses , and observed , " The great difficulty is , to know when you have made good ones . When ...
Pagina 14
... wonder ; but hoped that it would be renewed at your recovery . " Since you will not inform us where you are , or how you live , I know not whether you desire to know any thing of us . However , I will tell you that THE CLUB subsists ...
... wonder ; but hoped that it would be renewed at your recovery . " Since you will not inform us where you are , or how you live , I know not whether you desire to know any thing of us . However , I will tell you that THE CLUB subsists ...
Pagina 15
... wonder . " Burke is a great man by nature , and is expected soon to attain civil greatness . I am grown greater too , for I have maintained the newspapers these many weeks ; and what is greater still , I have risen every morning since ...
... wonder . " Burke is a great man by nature , and is expected soon to attain civil greatness . I am grown greater too , for I have maintained the newspapers these many weeks ; and what is greater still , I have risen every morning since ...
Pagina 18
... wonder , with most that hear an account of his œconomy , will be , how he was able , with such an income , to do so much , especially when it is considered that he paid for every thing he had . He had no land , except the two or three ...
... wonder , with most that hear an account of his œconomy , will be , how he was able , with such an income , to do so much , especially when it is considered that he paid for every thing he had . He had no land , except the two or three ...
Pagina 26
... wonder that serious men should put themselves under the protection of a reli- gious order , when they have found how unable they are to take care of themselves . For my own part , without affecting to be a Socrates , I am sure I have a ...
... wonder that serious men should put themselves under the protection of a reli- gious order , when they have found how unable they are to take care of themselves . For my own part , without affecting to be a Socrates , I am sure I have a ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 470 - 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.
Pagina 356 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Pagina 246 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And see the ocean leaning on the sky ; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world securely pry.
Pagina 228 - It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London : — JOHNSON. ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three months." — GOLDSMITH. "And a very dull fellow.
Pagina 49 - ... supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive. But, Sir, that is not enough. An argument which does not convince yourself may convince the judge to whom you urge it ; and if it does convince him, why, then. Sir, you are wrong, and he is right. It is his business to judge ; and you are not to be confident in your own opinion that a cause is bad, but to say all you can for your client, and then hear the judge's opinion.
Pagina 74 - Talking of a London life, he said: " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Pagina 191 - I believe they might be good beings, but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden.
Pagina 6 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain : Teach him, that states of native strength...
Pagina 257 - Sir, that is because at first she has full time and makes her nest deliberately. In the case you mention she is pressed to lay, and must therefore make her nest quickly, and consequently it will be slight." GOLDSMITH. " The nidification of birds is what is least known in natural history, though one of the most curious things in it.
Pagina 469 - The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcoroer you are.