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... continued . " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour ; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable , more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it . " The morality ...
... continued . " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour ; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable , more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it . " The morality ...
Pagina 20
... continued while the present system of nature shall subsist ; nor can history or poetry exhibit more than pleasure triumphing over virtue , and virtue subjugating pleasure . " As Dr. Oliver Goldsmith will frequently appear in this ...
... continued while the present system of nature shall subsist ; nor can history or poetry exhibit more than pleasure triumphing over virtue , and virtue subjugating pleasure . " As Dr. Oliver Goldsmith will frequently appear in this ...
Pagina 69
... continued to be idle . He then came to London , where he has been very idle ; and now he is going to Utrecht , where he will be as idle as ever . " I asked him privately how he could expose me so . JOHNSON . " Poh , poh ! ( said he ) ...
... continued to be idle . He then came to London , where he has been very idle ; and now he is going to Utrecht , where he will be as idle as ever . " I asked him privately how he could expose me so . JOHNSON . " Poh , poh ! ( said he ) ...
Pagina 80
... continued their conversation till a pretty late hour . This club has been gradually increased to its present number , thirty - five . After about ten years , instead of supping weekly , it was resolved to dine together once a fort ...
... continued their conversation till a pretty late hour . This club has been gradually increased to its present number , thirty - five . After about ten years , instead of supping weekly , it was resolved to dine together once a fort ...
Pagina 83
... continued to attend our meetings to the time of his death . Mrs. Piozzi has also given a similar misrepre- sentation of Johnson's treatment of Garrick in this particular , as if he had used these contemptuous ex- pressions : " If ...
... continued to attend our meetings to the time of his death . Mrs. Piozzi has also given a similar misrepre- sentation of Johnson's treatment of Garrick in this particular , as if he had used these contemptuous ex- pressions : " If ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson. with Copious Notes by Malone James Boswell Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2018 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 3 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
Pagina 37 - I cannot now curse (smiling) the house of Hanover ; nor would it be decent for me to drink king James's health in the wine that king George gives me money to pay for. But, sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the house of Hanover, and drinking king James's health, are amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year.
Pagina 334 - 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 104 - 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 250 - Chesterfield told me that the word great should be pronounced so as to rhyme to state; and Sir William Yonge sent me word that it should be pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait. Now here were two men of the highest rank, the one, the best speaker in the House of Lords, the other, the best speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely.
Pagina 138 - During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room.
Pagina 269 - Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr.
Pagina 301 - I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest.
Pagina 74 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Pagina 84 - A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression.