Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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Pagina xviii
... writing it . My numerous extracts from the eleven vol- umes of his collected works will , I trust , not only give a truer insight into the nature of the man , but also will show the greatness of the author to a generation of readers who ...
... writing it . My numerous extracts from the eleven vol- umes of his collected works will , I trust , not only give a truer insight into the nature of the man , but also will show the greatness of the author to a generation of readers who ...
Pagina xxiv
... writing of Ma- caulay's criticism , he says : ' The attack defeated itself by its very violence , and therefore it did the book no harm what- ever . Between forty and fifty thousand copies have been sold , although Macaulay boasted with ...
... writing of Ma- caulay's criticism , he says : ' The attack defeated itself by its very violence , and therefore it did the book no harm what- ever . Between forty and fifty thousand copies have been sold , although Macaulay boasted with ...
Pagina 3
... writing agreeably . The Lord Chancellor [ Thurlow ] told me he had read every word of my Hebridian Journal ; ' he could not help it ; adding , ' could you give a rule how to write a book that a man must read ? I believe Longinus could ...
... writing agreeably . The Lord Chancellor [ Thurlow ] told me he had read every word of my Hebridian Journal ; ' he could not help it ; adding , ' could you give a rule how to write a book that a man must read ? I believe Longinus could ...
Pagina 6
... writing to Temple in 1775 , says : I try to keep a journal , and shall shew you that I have done tolerably ; but it is hardly credi- ble what ground I go over , and what a variety of men and manners I contemplate in a day ; and all the ...
... writing to Temple in 1775 , says : I try to keep a journal , and shall shew you that I have done tolerably ; but it is hardly credi- ble what ground I go over , and what a variety of men and manners I contemplate in a day ; and all the ...
Pagina 7
... writing down his conversa- tion . ' Ib . Sept. 7. His industry grew much less towards the close of Johnson's life . Under May 8 , 1781 , he records : - ' -'Of his conversation on that and other occasions during this period , I neglected ...
... writing down his conversa- tion . ' Ib . Sept. 7. His industry grew much less towards the close of Johnson's life . Under May 8 , 1781 , he records : - ' -'Of his conversation on that and other occasions during this period , I neglected ...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1 James Boswell Volledige weergave - 1799 |
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776 ... James Boswell Volledige weergave - 1887 |
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1 James Boswell Volledige weergave - 1799 |
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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 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 365 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
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.