Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson, Volum 21807 |
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Pàgina 5
... wish you would enable yourself to borrow more . " An ingenious gentleman was mentioned , con- cerning whom it was observed , that he had a con- stant firmness of mind ; for after a laborious day , and amidst a multiplicity of cares and ...
... wish you would enable yourself to borrow more . " An ingenious gentleman was mentioned , con- cerning whom it was observed , that he had a con- stant firmness of mind ; for after a laborious day , and amidst a multiplicity of cares and ...
Pàgina 6
... Wishes ; ' yet observed , that things were done upon the sup- position of happiness ; grand houses were built , fine gardens were made , splendid places of pub- lic amusement were contrived , and crowded with company . " Alas , Sir ...
... Wishes ; ' yet observed , that things were done upon the sup- position of happiness ; grand houses were built , fine gardens were made , splendid places of pub- lic amusement were contrived , and crowded with company . " Alas , Sir ...
Pàgina 11
... wish you would a little correct or restrain your imagination , and imagine that happiness , such as life admits , may be had at other places as well as at London . Without asserting stoicism , it may be said , that it is our business to ...
... wish you would a little correct or restrain your imagination , and imagine that happiness , such as life admits , may be had at other places as well as at London . Without asserting stoicism , it may be said , that it is our business to ...
Pàgina 15
... wish to repeat , were an angel to make the proposal to him . DEATH . once , in a con- MR . BOSWELL tells us , that he versation with Johnson , and other company , ex- pressed a horror at the thoughts of death . Mrs. Knowles , the Quaker ...
... wish to repeat , were an angel to make the proposal to him . DEATH . once , in a con- MR . BOSWELL tells us , that he versation with Johnson , and other company , ex- pressed a horror at the thoughts of death . Mrs. Knowles , the Quaker ...
Pàgina 19
... Wishes , ' he has supposed death to be kind Nature's signal for retreat , ' from this state of being to a happier seat , ' his thoughts upon this awful change were in general full of dismal ap- prehensions . His mind resembled the vast ...
... Wishes , ' he has supposed death to be kind Nature's signal for retreat , ' from this state of being to a happier seat , ' his thoughts upon this awful change were in general full of dismal ap- prehensions . His mind resembled the vast ...
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admiration afraid allow ancient appeared asked Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe better Bishop blank verse Burke Cawston character Christian Church Church of England Church of Scotland Cibber clergyman consider conversation death Divinity eminent English expressed fear Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happiness History of China hope human Hume humour imagination infidel John Johnson observed language learning literary lived Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Camden Madam maintained mankind manner ment merit mind miracles nature neral never objections occasion once opinion passion philosophers pleased poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise punishment racter religion Scotland Scripture seems sermons Shakspeare shew Shiels Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir said Johnson style suppose sure talked tell Theocritus thing Thirty-nine Articles thought tion told translation true truth uneasy verse Virgil wish wonder write written wrote
Passatges populars
Pàgina 50 - 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 59 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.
Pàgina 143 - The subject having been introduced by Dr Fordyce, Dr Blair, relying on the internal evidence of their antiquity, asked Dr Johnson whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems ? Johnson replied, "Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.
Pàgina 216 - I have not read Hume; but, doubtless, Goldsmith's History is better than the verbiage of Robertson, or the foppery of Dalrymple." BOSWELL. " Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose History we find such penetration — such painting? " JOHNSON. " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination. He who describes what he never saw, draws from fancy. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece:...
Pàgina 194 - JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,) ' Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits.
Pàgina 216 - ... be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know ; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Pàgina 202 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him ; but the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, 'throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.
Pàgina 180 - He used frequently to observe that men might be very eminent in a profession, without our perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. ' It seems strange,' said he, ' that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so short a way to the left. Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you.
Pàgina 11 - A physician, who has practised long in a great city, may be excused if he retires to a small town, and takes less practice. Now, Sir, the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings, that the practice of a physician, retired to a small town, does to his practice in a great city.
Pàgina 200 - He has a singular talent of exhibiting character." JOHNSON. " Sir, it is not a talent ; it is a vice ; it is what others abstain from. It is not comedy, which exhibits the character of a species, as that of a miser gathered from many misers ; it is farce which exhibits individuals.