Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 pagina's |
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Pagina 143
... racter of the English in his " Traveller , " beginning " Stern o'er each bosom , " & c . 271. Time . He was extremely accurate in his computation of time . He could tell how many heroic Latin verses could be re- peated in such a given ...
... racter of the English in his " Traveller , " beginning " Stern o'er each bosom , " & c . 271. Time . He was extremely accurate in his computation of time . He could tell how many heroic Latin verses could be re- peated in such a given ...
Pagina 214
... racter . Doubtless , the progress of his education had a double tendency to brighten and to obscure it . But I must observe , that this obscurity ( implying only his awk- ward uncouth appearance , his ignorance of the rules of ...
... racter . Doubtless , the progress of his education had a double tendency to brighten and to obscure it . But I must observe , that this obscurity ( implying only his awk- ward uncouth appearance , his ignorance of the rules of ...
Pagina 349
... racter , excelled most men in contriving the best means to accomplish any end , devised the following mode for com- pleting his Dictionary , as he himself expressly described to the writer of this account . He began his task by devoting ...
... racter , excelled most men in contriving the best means to accomplish any end , devised the following mode for com- pleting his Dictionary , as he himself expressly described to the writer of this account . He began his task by devoting ...
Pagina 509
... racter from my Tour , somewhat enlarged ? " " London , Feb. 25 , 1791. I have not seen Sir Joshua I think for a fortnight . I have been worse than you can possibly imagine , or I hope ever shall be able to imagine ; which no man can do ...
... racter from my Tour , somewhat enlarged ? " " London , Feb. 25 , 1791. I have not seen Sir Joshua I think for a fortnight . I have been worse than you can possibly imagine , or I hope ever shall be able to imagine ; which no man can do ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 468 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Pagina 391 - 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 441 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Pagina 376 - 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 468 - 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 392 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered 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 387 - 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 32 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Pagina 26 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Pagina 394 - 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...