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 10
... truth of them : when a man has nothing to lose , he may be in good humour with his opponent . Lucian , the Epicurean , who keeps his temper ; the Stoick , tive to preserve , grows angry . Being angry with one who controverts an opinion ...
... truth of them : when a man has nothing to lose , he may be in good humour with his opponent . Lucian , the Epicurean , who keeps his temper ; the Stoick , tive to preserve , grows angry . Being angry with one who controverts an opinion ...
Pàgina 11
... truth will always bear an exa- mination . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , but it is painful to be forced to defend it . Consider , Sir , how should you like , though conscious of your innocence , to be tried before a jury for a capital crime ...
... truth will always bear an exa- mination . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , but it is painful to be forced to defend it . Consider , Sir , how should you like , though conscious of your innocence , to be tried before a jury for a capital crime ...
Pàgina 13
... truth should be told , than that individuals should not be made uneasy , that it is much better that the law does not restrain writing freely concerning the characters of the dead . Damages will be given to a man who is calumniated in ...
... truth should be told , than that individuals should not be made uneasy , that it is much better that the law does not restrain writing freely concerning the characters of the dead . Damages will be given to a man who is calumniated in ...
Pàgina 15
... truth was not so firm as to bid defiance to all attacks , so that it might be shot at as much as people chose to attempt , and yet remain unhurt . JOHNSON . " Then , Sir , it would not be shot at . Nobody attempts to dispute that two ...
... truth was not so firm as to bid defiance to all attacks , so that it might be shot at as much as people chose to attempt , and yet remain unhurt . JOHNSON . " Then , Sir , it would not be shot at . Nobody attempts to dispute that two ...
Pàgina 16
... truth . " JOHNSON . " Sir , he is accessary to no imposition . His daughter is in his house ; and if a man courts her , he takes his chance . If a friend , or , indeed , if any man asks his opinion whether he should marry her , he ought ...
... truth . " JOHNSON . " Sir , he is accessary to no imposition . His daughter is in his house ; and if a man courts her , he takes his chance . If a friend , or , indeed , if any man asks his opinion whether he should marry her , he ought ...
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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.