Doctor Johnson: His Life, Works & Table TalkT. F. Unwin, 1884 - 156 Seiten |
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... appears to us still in stately majesty , as he did when he was supreme and almost without a rival in the literary circles of his time . This position he held as much by his moral excellence as by his intellectual power , and by his ...
... appears to us still in stately majesty , as he did when he was supreme and almost without a rival in the literary circles of his time . This position he held as much by his moral excellence as by his intellectual power , and by his ...
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... appears to us now scarcely cred- ible , yet the following facts will convince any one that there is no exaggeration as to the deference shown to him . The Doctor had composed a Latin epitaph for the monument in West- minster Abbey to ...
... appears to us now scarcely cred- ible , yet the following facts will convince any one that there is no exaggeration as to the deference shown to him . The Doctor had composed a Latin epitaph for the monument in West- minster Abbey to ...
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... appears in Boswell's Life , be- gining , " We , the circumscribers , " & c . Sir Joshua consented to carry it to Dr. Johnson , who received the document with great good humour , and desired Sir Joshua to I 2 Doctor Johnson .
... appears in Boswell's Life , be- gining , " We , the circumscribers , " & c . Sir Joshua consented to carry it to Dr. Johnson , who received the document with great good humour , and desired Sir Joshua to I 2 Doctor Johnson .
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... appears to be done with ease , and art when it is once observed vanishes from observa- tion . We are therefore more powerfully excited to emulation by those who have attained the highest degree of excellence , and whom we can therefore ...
... appears to be done with ease , and art when it is once observed vanishes from observa- tion . We are therefore more powerfully excited to emulation by those who have attained the highest degree of excellence , and whom we can therefore ...
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... indeed allowed . that if such a man could but appear in a few causes , his merit would be known ; and he would get forward ; but that the great risk was , that a man might pass half 94 Doctor Johnson . LAW AS A PROFESSION.
... indeed allowed . that if such a man could but appear in a few causes , his merit would be known ; and he would get forward ; but that the great risk was , that a man might pass half 94 Doctor Johnson . LAW AS A PROFESSION.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 38 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Seite 37 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Seite 38 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable...
Seite 37 - Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. 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.
Seite 34 - Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned...
Seite 109 - ... degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man but a very impudent dog indeed can as freely command what is in another man's house as if it were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are.
Seite 16 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Seite 88 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Seite 48 - It is always an ignorant, lazy, or cowardly acquiescence in a false appearance of excellence, and proceeds not from consciousness of our attainments, but insensibility of our wants, Nothing can be great which is not right. Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Seite 27 - The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely Want retired to die.