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Pagina 77
... considers that by those who know him only as an authour he never ceases to be re- spected . Such an authour , when in his hours of gloom and discon- tent , may have the consolation to think that his writings are , at that very time ...
... considers that by those who know him only as an authour he never ceases to be re- spected . Such an authour , when in his hours of gloom and discon- tent , may have the consolation to think that his writings are , at that very time ...
Pagina 80
... consider 6 how easy it is to make people stare by being ab- surd . I may do it by going into a drawingroom without my shoes . You remember the gentleman in The Spectator , ' who had a commission of lunacy taken out against him for his ...
... consider 6 how easy it is to make people stare by being ab- surd . I may do it by going into a drawingroom without my shoes . You remember the gentleman in The Spectator , ' who had a commission of lunacy taken out against him for his ...
Pagina 91
... considering it as a piece of the secondary or comparative species of criticism ; and not of that profound species which alone Dr. Johnson would allow to be " real criticism . " It is , besides , clearly and elegantly expressed , and has ...
... considering it as a piece of the secondary or comparative species of criticism ; and not of that profound species which alone Dr. Johnson would allow to be " real criticism . " It is , besides , clearly and elegantly expressed , and has ...
Pagina 102
... consider the state of our own country ; -does not throwing a number of farms into one hand hurt population ? " JOHNSON . " Why , no , sir ; the same quantity of food being produced will be consumed by the same number of mouths , though ...
... consider the state of our own country ; -does not throwing a number of farms into one hand hurt population ? " JOHNSON . " Why , no , sir ; the same quantity of food being produced will be consumed by the same number of mouths , though ...
Pagina 111
... consider yourself as upon the whole very happily married . " Talking of marriage in general , he observed , " Our marriage service is too refined . It is cal- culated only for the best kind of marriages ; whereas , we should have a form ...
... consider yourself as upon the whole very happily married . " Talking of marriage in general , he observed , " Our marriage service is too refined . It is cal- culated only for the best kind of marriages ; whereas , we should have a form ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 363 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Pagina 326 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Pagina 190 - 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 213 - ... else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it, as if I had seen him do it. Sir, had he shown it to any one friend, he would not have been allowed to publish it. He has, indeed, done it very well ; but it is a foolish thing well done. I suppose he has been so much elated with the success of his new comedy, that he has thought every thing that concerned him must be of importance to the public.
Pagina 123 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Pagina 173 - But, Sir, in the British Constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown ". JoHNSON : " Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig. — Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough.
Pagina 323 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," —" When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Pagina 90 - ... of the boats, and other circumstances, are all very good description ; but do not impress the mind at once with the horrible idea of immense height. The impression is divided ; you pass on by computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride' said, she could not cast h'er shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it.
Pagina 260 - I remember one day, when Tom Davies was telling that Dr. Johnson said — ' We are all in labour for a name to Goldy's play,' Goldsmith seemed displeased that such a liberty should be taken with his name, and said, ' I have often desired him not to call me Goldy.
Pagina 233 - For instance, (said he), the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly over their heads, and envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill (continued he,) consists in making them talk like little fishes.