The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published ...T. Cadell, 1822 |
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Pàgina 19
... collection ; and various other small pieces ; but , being a very modest man , never put his name to any thing . He shewed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good engraved portrait of ...
... collection ; and various other small pieces ; but , being a very modest man , never put his name to any thing . He shewed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good engraved portrait of ...
Pàgina 34
... Collection , and maintained , that though you could not find a palace like Dryden's " Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , " you had villages composed of very pretty houses ; and he mentioned particularly " The Spleen . " JOHNSON . " I think ...
... Collection , and maintained , that though you could not find a palace like Dryden's " Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , " you had villages composed of very pretty houses ; and he mentioned particularly " The Spleen . " JOHNSON . " I think ...
Pàgina 37
... collected . Davies said , they would not sell . Dr. Johnson seemed to think otherwise , Davies said of a well known dramatick authour , that " he lived upon potted stories , and that he made his way as Hannibal did , by vinegar ; having ...
... collected . Davies said , they would not sell . Dr. Johnson seemed to think otherwise , Davies said of a well known dramatick authour , that " he lived upon potted stories , and that he made his way as Hannibal did , by vinegar ; having ...
Pàgina 46
... collection a Scotch Highlander , a man of learning too , and who had seen the world , attesting , and at the same time giving his reasons for the authenticity of Fingal : " I have heard all that poem when I was young . ' " Have you ...
... collection a Scotch Highlander , a man of learning too , and who had seen the world , attesting , and at the same time giving his reasons for the authenticity of Fingal : " I have heard all that poem when I was young . ' " Have you ...
Pàgina 89
... collection of medals would do credit to per- sons of greater opulence . [ Mr. Nathaniel Thomas , who was many years Editor of the St. James's Chronicle , died March 1 , 1795. MALONE . ] conciled , May you and your father pass the ...
... collection of medals would do credit to per- sons of greater opulence . [ Mr. Nathaniel Thomas , who was many years Editor of the St. James's Chronicle , died March 1 , 1795. MALONE . ] conciled , May you and your father pass the ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, Comprehending an Account of His Studies ..., Volum 3 James Boswell Visualització completa - 1824 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 180 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Pàgina 304 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Pàgina 69 - You will allow his Apology to be well done." JOHNSON: "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
Pàgina 221 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Pàgina 412 - If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Pàgina 39 - Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances, (he said,) but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
Pàgina 356 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Pàgina 347 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Pàgina 256 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
Pàgina 30 - The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.