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It has given very general satisfaction ; and those who found most fault with a
passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through ,
and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross
expressions ...
It has given very general satisfaction ; and those who found most fault with a
passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through ,
and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross
expressions ...
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... which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and
entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I have given upon a former
occasion ( ) ) have been received with so much approbation , that I have good
grounds for ...
... which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and
entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I have given upon a former
occasion ( ) ) have been received with so much approbation , that I have good
grounds for ...
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Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers , he was asked by Mr .
Jorden to translate Pope ' s Messiah into Latin verse , as a Christmas exercise .
He performed it with uncommon rapidity , and in so masterly a manner , that he ...
Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers , he was asked by Mr .
Jorden to translate Pope ' s Messiah into Latin verse , as a Christmas exercise .
He performed it with uncommon rapidity , and in so masterly a manner , that he ...
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( 2 ) Mrs . Piozzi has given a strange fantastical account of the original of Dr .
Johnson ' s belief in our most holy religion . “ At the age of ten years his mind was
disturbed by scruples of infidelity , which preyed upon his spirits , and made him
very ...
( 2 ) Mrs . Piozzi has given a strange fantastical account of the original of Dr .
Johnson ' s belief in our most holy religion . “ At the age of ten years his mind was
disturbed by scruples of infidelity , which preyed upon his spirits , and made him
very ...
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But men of reflection will be sensible that he has given a true representation of
human existence , and that he has , at the same time , with a generous
benevolence , displayed every consolation which our state affords us ; not only
those arising ...
But men of reflection will be sensible that he has given a true representation of
human existence , and that he has , at the same time , with a generous
benevolence , displayed every consolation which our state affords us ; not only
those arising ...
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226 페이지 - Where then shall hope and fear their objects find ? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind ? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate...
260 페이지 - In verbis etiam tenuis cautusque serendis, Dixeris egregie notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum. Si forte necesse est Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, Fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis Continget, dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter ; Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem si Graeco fonte cadant, parce detorta.
105 페이지 - ... and I have ever thought that those who devote themselves to this employment, and do their duty with diligence and success, are entitled to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained.
235 페이지 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
146 페이지 - Arts in their University. They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the University will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say, he is not afraid of the strictest examination, though he is of so long a journey ; and will venture it, if the Dean thinks it necessary : choosing rather to die upon the road, than be starved to death in translating for booksellers ; which has been his only subsistence...
176 페이지 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber.
69 페이지 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
22 페이지 - I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life, than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order, but interweaving what he privately wrote, and said, and thought ; by which mankind are enabled, as it were, to see him live, and to ' live o'er each scene' * with him, as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life.
142 페이지 - Has heaven reserved, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscover'd shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd by Spain ? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear Oppression's insolence no more.
45 페이지 - ... when a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry, and he retained his fondness for them through life; so that [adds his Lordship] spending part of a summer at my parsonage-house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profession.
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| 제목 | The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, 1권 The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, &c. and notes by various hands, James Boswell |
| 저자 | James Boswell |
| 편집자 | John Wright |
| 출판 | 1835 |
| 소장 | 옥스포드 대학교 |
| 디지털화된 날짜: | 2006년 4월 6일 |
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