The Life of Samuel JohnsonGeorg Olms Verlag - 639 pages |
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Page v
... attention to the growth of John- sonian biography has focused principally on the three major lives or memoirs by his contemporaries ( Mrs. Thrale , Hawkins , and Boswell ) and to a lesser degree on a few of the more available minor ...
... attention to the growth of John- sonian biography has focused principally on the three major lives or memoirs by his contemporaries ( Mrs. Thrale , Hawkins , and Boswell ) and to a lesser degree on a few of the more available minor ...
Page xix
... attention : For all his prejudices and extravagancies we are unable to apologize . These are the shades of his character which it has been the business of satirical defamers to represent in the darkest colours . As it is necessary that ...
... attention : For all his prejudices and extravagancies we are unable to apologize . These are the shades of his character which it has been the business of satirical defamers to represent in the darkest colours . As it is necessary that ...
Page xxi
... attention.16 Set against this background , " Anderson's critical essay , even in the 1795 version , is among the most advanced and imaginative of those written in the first few decades after Johnson's death . Greatly expanded for the ...
... attention.16 Set against this background , " Anderson's critical essay , even in the 1795 version , is among the most advanced and imaginative of those written in the first few decades after Johnson's death . Greatly expanded for the ...
Page xxv
... attention to Johnson's early and middle years than do any other biographers except Hawkins . He seldom has new facts to add , for he had disclaimed his ability to uncover new sources of infor- mation at the very start . On several ...
... attention to Johnson's early and middle years than do any other biographers except Hawkins . He seldom has new facts to add , for he had disclaimed his ability to uncover new sources of infor- mation at the very start . On several ...
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... attention of literary leisure , were written in haste , as the moment pressed , without even being read over by him before they were printed . " 22 Anderson , ever critical of the effusions of his prede- cessors , finds this extremely ...
... attention of literary leisure , were written in haste , as the moment pressed , without even being read over by him before they were printed . " 22 Anderson , ever critical of the effusions of his prede- cessors , finds this extremely ...
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Page 542 - 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. 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...
Page 298 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 212 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since 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.
Page 211 - 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 542 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. 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 211 - TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. "Mv LORD, February 7, 1775. " 1 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. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 30 - 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'.