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Pàgina viii
... live any longer at random ; he took a Master , and was done with doubt . In Boswell's words- " From this time forward Religion was the predominant object of his thoughts ; though , with the just sentiments of a conscientious Christian ...
... live any longer at random ; he took a Master , and was done with doubt . In Boswell's words- " From this time forward Religion was the predominant object of his thoughts ; though , with the just sentiments of a conscientious Christian ...
Pàgina xvi
... live and labour , but it was less painful to him to sit there than in any other part of the house . Dr. Burney accompanied him one day to his garret in Gough Square and found " five or six Greek folios , a deal writing- desk , and a ...
... live and labour , but it was less painful to him to sit there than in any other part of the house . Dr. Burney accompanied him one day to his garret in Gough Square and found " five or six Greek folios , a deal writing- desk , and a ...
Pàgina xxv
... lives and laughs , and walks and talks before us . Let it be granted once for all that the honest fellow , with his ridiculous family pride , childish vanity , and too palpable hero - worship , said and did many foolish things ; yet it ...
... lives and laughs , and walks and talks before us . Let it be granted once for all that the honest fellow , with his ridiculous family pride , childish vanity , and too palpable hero - worship , said and did many foolish things ; yet it ...
Pàgina xxix
... Lives of the Poets , and two years later he finished his literary labours with another six volumes of the Lives . During the closing years of his career , according to Boswell , " he seemed to be a kind of public oracle , whom everybody ...
... Lives of the Poets , and two years later he finished his literary labours with another six volumes of the Lives . During the closing years of his career , according to Boswell , " he seemed to be a kind of public oracle , whom everybody ...
Pàgina xxx
... Lives of the Poets , written in old age , in spite of the occasional unjust- ness of the strictures they contain , show , in their blended criticism and biography , the hand of Johnson at its best . Dr. Johnson himself was greater than ...
... Lives of the Poets , written in old age , in spite of the occasional unjust- ness of the strictures they contain , show , in their blended criticism and biography , the hand of Johnson at its best . Dr. Johnson himself was greater than ...
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Pàgina xvi - 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.
Pàgina 309 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Pàgina 29 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Pàgina 79 - For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.
Pàgina 77 - LL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of •** others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Pàgina 192 - OUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we ^ are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last.
Pàgina 335 - TALES AND ESSAYS. EDITED, WITH INTROduction, by Ernest Rhys. 42 VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Edited, with Preface, by Ernest Rhys. 43 POLITICAL ORATIONS, FROM WENTWORTH TO Macaulay. Edited, with Introduction, by William Clarke. 44 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. BY Oliver Wendell Holmes. 45 THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. BY OLIVER Wendell Holmes. 46 THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST- TABLE.
Pàgina 80 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.
Pàgina 5 - What is new is opposed, because most are unwilling to be taught ; and what is known is rejected, because it is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Pàgina 157 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.