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xxvi 페이지
... live , and luckily for mankind , he lived a good many years to write . " Truly , as a great writer says , " JOHNSON was fond of fame , and he was famous . " His Dictionary work , after paying his amanuensis , only yielded him a revenue ...
... live , and luckily for mankind , he lived a good many years to write . " Truly , as a great writer says , " JOHNSON was fond of fame , and he was famous . " His Dictionary work , after paying his amanuensis , only yielded him a revenue ...
xxxi 페이지
... Lives of the Poets , " treating of Granville , speaking of personality in authorship , says , " Writers commonly derive their reputation from their works ; but there are works which owe their reputation to the character of the writer ...
... Lives of the Poets , " treating of Granville , speaking of personality in authorship , says , " Writers commonly derive their reputation from their works ; but there are works which owe their reputation to the character of the writer ...
xxxix 페이지
... Lives of the Poets , " published in 1777. Until " The Lives of the Poets " appeared , biography was , with few ex- ceptions , confined to warriors and statesmen . But JOHNSON maintained that a nation received its chief glory from her ...
... Lives of the Poets , " published in 1777. Until " The Lives of the Poets " appeared , biography was , with few ex- ceptions , confined to warriors and statesmen . But JOHNSON maintained that a nation received its chief glory from her ...
xl 페이지
... Lives , was not an under- taking directed by him ; but he was to furnish a Preface and Life to any poet the booksellers pleased . I asked him if he would do this to any dunce's works , if they asked him . JOHNSON : ' Yes , sir , and say ...
... Lives , was not an under- taking directed by him ; but he was to furnish a Preface and Life to any poet the booksellers pleased . I asked him if he would do this to any dunce's works , if they asked him . JOHNSON : ' Yes , sir , and say ...
xli 페이지
... Lives of the Poets " has led the way to several subsequent editions on an improved and extended scale . Lord Macaulay , criticising JOHNSON'S Life of Savage , says : " JOHNSON reprinted it nearly as it had appeared in 1744. Whoever ...
... Lives of the Poets " has led the way to several subsequent editions on an improved and extended scale . Lord Macaulay , criticising JOHNSON'S Life of Savage , says : " JOHNSON reprinted it nearly as it had appeared in 1744. Whoever ...
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April April 14 April 29 believe better Boswell's Carlyle character conversation danger death Dictionary dinner drinking English evil fame flattery friendship Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happiness Hawkins hear Hebrides Highland hope human humour idle Idler Ignorance intellectual it.-Life JOHN Journey July 21 knowledge labour lady learning literary literature live London Lord Lord Macaulay Macaulay Madam man's mankind March March 21 Marriage Maxwell's Collectanea mind moral nation nature never occasion October October 19 October 26 passion Piozzi's Anecdotes pleased pleasure Poets politeness poverty praise pretty woman Rambler Rasselas reason replied Reynolds rich SAMUEL JOHNSON Savage Says Boswell Scotch Scotchman Scotland seldom September September 19 September 20 Sir Joshua solitude speak talk things thought Thrale tion Tory travelling truth virtue Wealth Western Islands Whig wine wise write
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xxii 페이지 - When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
xxiii 페이지 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,* one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
14 페이지 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
xxii 페이지 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
xx 페이지 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
xxiii 페이지 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
159 페이지 - Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
45 페이지 - Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod.* " I would rather (said he) have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superioritv, you lay...
xxiii 페이지 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON.
14 페이지 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.