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, 1권1835 |
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... known that he made notes of every conversation , yet no timidity was alarmed , no delicacy demurred ; and we are perhaps indebted to the lighter parts of his character for the patient indulgence with which every body submitted to sit ...
... known that he made notes of every conversation , yet no timidity was alarmed , no delicacy demurred ; and we are perhaps indebted to the lighter parts of his character for the patient indulgence with which every body submitted to sit ...
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... known few men who possessed a stronger sense of piety , or more fervent devotion ( tinctured , no doubt , with some little share of superstition ; which had , probably , in some degree , been fostered by his habits of intimacy with Dr ...
... known few men who possessed a stronger sense of piety , or more fervent devotion ( tinctured , no doubt , with some little share of superstition ; which had , probably , in some degree , been fostered by his habits of intimacy with Dr ...
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... known , that when he appeared , he was hailed as the harbinger of festivity . Sir Joshua was never more happy than when , on such occasion , Mr. Boswell was seated within his hearing . The Royal Society gratified Sir Joshua by electing ...
... known , that when he appeared , he was hailed as the harbinger of festivity . Sir Joshua was never more happy than when , on such occasion , Mr. Boswell was seated within his hearing . The Royal Society gratified Sir Joshua by electing ...
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... you have long pre- sided with unrivalled fame , but also in Philosophy and elegant Literature , is well known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of con- B 2.
... you have long pre- sided with unrivalled fame , but also in Philosophy and elegant Literature , is well known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of con- B 2.
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... known to the world , that he has been thought worthy of particular attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual ...
... known to the world , that he has been thought worthy of particular attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual ...
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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.