The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volum 1J. B. Lyon, 1880 |
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Pàgina x
... passed almost unblemished through so terrible an ordeal ! " But while we contemplate with such interest this admirable and perfect portrait , let us not forget the painter : pupils and imitators have added drape ries and backgrounds ...
... passed almost unblemished through so terrible an ordeal ! " But while we contemplate with such interest this admirable and perfect portrait , let us not forget the painter : pupils and imitators have added drape ries and backgrounds ...
Pàgina xiii
... . " Under the hospitable roof of Mr. Dilly , the biographer of Johnson passed many jovial , joyous hours : here he has located some of the liveliest scenes > and most brilliant passages in his entertaining anecdotes of his 1 PREFACE .
... . " Under the hospitable roof of Mr. Dilly , the biographer of Johnson passed many jovial , joyous hours : here he has located some of the liveliest scenes > and most brilliant passages in his entertaining anecdotes of his 1 PREFACE .
Pàgina xxx
... passed through the press ; but after having completed his very laborious and admirable edition of SHAKSPEARE , for which he generously would accept of no other re- ward but that fame which he has so deservedly obtained , he fulfilled 1 ...
... passed through the press ; but after having completed his very laborious and admirable edition of SHAKSPEARE , for which he generously would accept of no other re- ward but that fame which he has so deservedly obtained , he fulfilled 1 ...
Pàgina 34
... passed in his early years . Their father , Michael , died of an inflammatory fever , at the age of seventy - six , as Mr. Johnson told me : their mother at eighty - nine , of a gradual decay . She was slight in her person , he said ...
... passed in his early years . Their father , Michael , died of an inflammatory fever , at the age of seventy - six , as Mr. Johnson told me : their mother at eighty - nine , of a gradual decay . She was slight in her person , he said ...
Pàgina 52
... passed in what he thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady application . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a ...
... passed in what he thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady application . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a ...
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Pàgina 59 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire— why, it appeareth no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pàgina 216 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since 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.
Pàgina 278 - This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence : and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
Pàgina 375 - After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it —
Pàgina 71 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not some advantage from his friendship.
Pàgina 160 - Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...
Pàgina 408 - Rousseau, Sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations'.
Pàgina 331 - But Johnson informed me, that he had made the bargain for Goldsmith and the price was sixty pounds. " And, sir," said he, " a sufficient price too, when it was sold ; for then the fame of Goldsmith had not been elevated, as it afterwards was, by his Traveller; and the bookseller had such faint hopes of profit by his bargain, that he kept the manuscript by him a long time, and did not publish it till after the Traveller had appeared. Then, to be sure, it was accidentally worth more money.
Pàgina 243 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please, have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Pàgina 404 - ... endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Lukes iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own.