Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1887 - Authors, English |
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... desires is to talk about it . Liberty is what he asks for , liberty to range for a time wherever he pleases in the wide and fair fields of literature . Yet with this longing for freedom comes a touch of regret and a doubt lest the ...
... desires is to talk about it . Liberty is what he asks for , liberty to range for a time wherever he pleases in the wide and fair fields of literature . Yet with this longing for freedom comes a touch of regret and a doubt lest the ...
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... desires to make use of his strong and pointed utterances . Next to Shakespeare he is , I believe , quoted and misquoted the most frequently of all our writers . It is not every man that can carry a bon - mot3 Bons - mots that are ...
... desires to make use of his strong and pointed utterances . Next to Shakespeare he is , I believe , quoted and misquoted the most frequently of all our writers . It is not every man that can carry a bon - mot3 Bons - mots that are ...
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... desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give , read every play from the first scene to the last with utter negligence of all his commentators . When his fancy is once on the wing , let it not stoop at correction or ...
... desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give , read every play from the first scene to the last with utter negligence of all his commentators . When his fancy is once on the wing , let it not stoop at correction or ...
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... desire to obtain his regard , that three of the boys , of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one , used to come in the morning as his humble attendants , and carry him to school . One in the middle stooped , while he sat upon his back , and ...
... desire to obtain his regard , that three of the boys , of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one , used to come in the morning as his humble attendants , and carry him to school . One in the middle stooped , while he sat upon his back , and ...
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... desires of intellectual eminence , he spent much of his time over his books ; but he read only to store his mind with facts and images , seizing all that his authors presented with undistin- guishing voracity , and with an ap- petite ...
... desires of intellectual eminence , he spent much of his time over his books ; but he read only to store his mind with facts and images , seizing all that his authors presented with undistin- guishing voracity , and with an ap- petite ...
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Page 260 - ... 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.
Page 193 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Page 349 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 494 - Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely royal. Dennis is offended that Menenius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential character is not very careful of distinctions superinduced and adventitious. His story requires Romans or Kings,...
Page 441 - ... Sir, I love the acquaintance of young people ; because, in the first place, I don't like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old men ; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. I love the young dogs of this age, they have more wit and humour and knowledge of life than we had, but then the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad...
Page xxiii - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Page 393 - Sir, (said I,) I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow me to sit and hear you." He seemed pleased with this compliment, which I sincerely paid him, and answered, "Sir, I am obliged to any man who visits me.
Page 421 - Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign, he observed, "I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them. He was the most universal genius, being an excellent physician, a man of deep learning, and a man of much humour. Mr. Addison was, to be sure, a great man : his learning was not profound ; but his morality, his humour, and his elegance of writing, set him very high.
Page 312 - ... a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with Tea amuses the evening, with Tea solaces the midnight, and with Tea welcomes the morning.
Page 408 - His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck.