Johnson: His Characteristics and AphorismsA. Gardner, 1884 - 173 pages |
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... intellectual por- trait of him who , for a quarter of a century , was the intellectual dictator of the British nation . Whether we have succeeded in our endeavour , the public must judge . Considering that JOHNSON'S works are now al ...
... intellectual por- trait of him who , for a quarter of a century , was the intellectual dictator of the British nation . Whether we have succeeded in our endeavour , the public must judge . Considering that JOHNSON'S works are now al ...
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... intellectual giant , and the world would have lost the instruction and entertain- ment which it has received from " Boswell's Life of Johnson . " About a week after this interview , on : the advice of Davies , Boswell waited on JOHNSON ...
... intellectual giant , and the world would have lost the instruction and entertain- ment which it has received from " Boswell's Life of Johnson . " About a week after this interview , on : the advice of Davies , Boswell waited on JOHNSON ...
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... intellectual giant from his literary den in London , to the wilds of Scotland , to survey a nation and people against whom , it was popularly believed , he had such an unaccountable prejudice ! JOHNSON arrived in Edinburgh on the 14th ...
... intellectual giant from his literary den in London , to the wilds of Scotland , to survey a nation and people against whom , it was popularly believed , he had such an unaccountable prejudice ! JOHNSON arrived in Edinburgh on the 14th ...
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... men all over the world . " Unless he had been conver- sant with literature it had been impossible for him to provide material to keep a - going as he did the intellectual mill of JOHNSON . He was also a social Life . lxxxix .
... men all over the world . " Unless he had been conver- sant with literature it had been impossible for him to provide material to keep a - going as he did the intellectual mill of JOHNSON . He was also a social Life . lxxxix .
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... intellectual knee was bent to him . In every society he entered he was the first speaker ; wherever he went all men reverenced and applauded him . Yet in the midst of all this , in the midst of the great city that was filled with his ...
... intellectual knee was bent to him . In every society he entered he was the first speaker ; wherever he went all men reverenced and applauded him . Yet in the midst of all this , in the midst of the great city that was filled with his ...
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Page xxii - 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...
Page xxiii - 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.
Page 14 - 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.
Page xxii - 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.
Page xx - 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.
Page xxiii - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Page 159 - 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.
Page 45 - 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...
Page xxiii - 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.
Page 14 - 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.