Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. JohnsonJohn Wilson Croker Carey and Hart, 1842 - 529 pàgines |
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... Garrick . Of Mr. Johnson's toryism the world has long been wit- ness , and the political pamphlets written by him in defence of his party are vigorous and elegant . Says Garrick to him one day , Why did not you make me a Tory , when we ...
... Garrick . Of Mr. Johnson's toryism the world has long been wit- ness , and the political pamphlets written by him in defence of his party are vigorous and elegant . Says Garrick to him one day , Why did not you make me a Tory , when we ...
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... Garrick - Congreve - and Young . Of Pope as a writer he had the highest opinion , and once when a lady at our house talked of his preface to Shakspeare as superior to Pope's , " I fear not , madam , " said he , " The little fellow has ...
... Garrick - Congreve - and Young . Of Pope as a writer he had the highest opinion , and once when a lady at our house talked of his preface to Shakspeare as superior to Pope's , " I fear not , madam , " said he , " The little fellow has ...
Pàgina 32
... Garrick produced a pas- sage that he had once heard the Doctor commend , in which he now found , if I remember rightly , sixteen faults , and made Garrick look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , Why , what a ...
... Garrick produced a pas- sage that he had once heard the Doctor commend , in which he now found , if I remember rightly , sixteen faults , and made Garrick look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , Why , what a ...
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... Garrick . — Thrale . Knowing the state of Mr. Johnson's nerves , and how easily they were affected , I forbore reading in a new maga- zine one day , the death of a Samuel Johnson who expired that month ; but my companion , snatching up ...
... Garrick . — Thrale . Knowing the state of Mr. Johnson's nerves , and how easily they were affected , I forbore reading in a new maga- zine one day , the death of a Samuel Johnson who expired that month ; but my companion , snatching up ...
Pàgina 74
... Garrick , or of Mr. Thrale , whom he loved better , was an image which no one durst present before his view : he always persisted in the possi- bility and hope of their recovering disorders from which no human creatures , by human means ...
... Garrick , or of Mr. Thrale , whom he loved better , was an image which no one durst present before his view : he always persisted in the possi- bility and hope of their recovering disorders from which no human creatures , by human means ...
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Pàgina 468 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Pàgina 391 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Pàgina 441 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Pàgina 376 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Pàgina 468 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Pàgina 392 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Pàgina 387 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Pàgina 32 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Pàgina 26 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Pàgina 394 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable...