Selections from Boswell's Life of JohnsonCharles E. Merrill Company, 1912 - 93페이지 |
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... attend with awe and admiration ; and his pre- cepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence . Addison's style , like a light wine , pleases everybody from the first . Johnson's , like a liquor of more body , seems too strong ...
... attend with awe and admiration ; and his pre- cepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence . Addison's style , like a light wine , pleases everybody from the first . Johnson's , like a liquor of more body , seems too strong ...
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... attend your public worship without scruple , and , indeed , with great satisfaction . " Johnson : " Why , sir , that is not so extraordinary : the King of Siam sent am- bassadors to Louis the Fourteenth ; but Louis the Fourteenth sent ...
... attend your public worship without scruple , and , indeed , with great satisfaction . " Johnson : " Why , sir , that is not so extraordinary : the King of Siam sent am- bassadors to Louis the Fourteenth ; but Louis the Fourteenth sent ...
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... attend it . " In order to rouse the vocal organs I took two drams . Wine has been celebrated for the produc- tion of eloquence . I put myself into violent motion , and I think repeated it ; but all was vain . I then went to bed , and ...
... attend it . " In order to rouse the vocal organs I took two drams . Wine has been celebrated for the produc- tion of eloquence . I put myself into violent motion , and I think repeated it ; but all was vain . I then went to bed , and ...
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... attended their in- timacy . Vol . VI , p . 173 . 1784- - - Æt . 75 " In the name of God , Amen . I , Samuel John- son , being in full possession of my faculties , but fearing this night may put an end to my life , do ordain this my last ...
... attended their in- timacy . Vol . VI , p . 173 . 1784- - - Æt . 75 " In the name of God , Amen . I , Samuel John- son , being in full possession of my faculties , but fearing this night may put an end to my life , do ordain this my last ...
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... Attend , Francis , to the salvation of your soul , which is the object of great- est importance ' : he also explained to him passages in the Scripture , and seemed to have pleasure in talking upon religious subjects . " On Monday , the ...
... Attend , Francis , to the salvation of your soul , which is the object of great- est importance ' : he also explained to him passages in the Scripture , and seemed to have pleasure in talking upon religious subjects . " On Monday , the ...
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22 페이지 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of...
26 페이지 - Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith unto all that truly turn to Him. COME unto me all that travail and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you.
31 페이지 - At last, on Monday the 16th of May, when I was sitting in Mr. Davies's back-parlour, after having drunk tea with him and Mrs. Davies, Johnson unexpectedly came into the shop ; and Mr.
18 페이지 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity : his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English stile, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
64 페이지 - Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, 'Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?' he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, 'Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch.
52 페이지 - 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.
36 페이지 - He had no doubt a more than common share of that hurry of ideas which we often find in his countrymen, and which sometimes produces a laughable confusion in expressing them.
33 페이지 - I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky; for, with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression, "come from Scotland...
40 페이지 - Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
35 페이지 - ... readers in some degree acquainted with his singular character. He was a native of Ireland, and a contemporary with Mr. Burke, at Trinity College, Dublin, but did not then give much promise of future celebrity.