The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Richardson, 1823 |
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... learned men abroad are in the Universities . It is not so with us . Our Universities are impoverished of learning by the penury of their provisions . I wish there were many places of a thousand a year at Oxford , to keep first rate men ...
... learned men abroad are in the Universities . It is not so with us . Our Universities are impoverished of learning by the penury of their provisions . I wish there were many places of a thousand a year at Oxford , to keep first rate men ...
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... learned what I know of law chiefly from Mr. Ballow ' , a very able man . I learned some too from Chambers ; but was not so teachable then . One is not wil- ling to be taught by a young man . " When I ex- pressed a wish to know more ...
... learned what I know of law chiefly from Mr. Ballow ' , a very able man . I learned some too from Chambers ; but was not so teachable then . One is not wil- ling to be taught by a young man . " When I ex- pressed a wish to know more ...
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... learned to play at cards . " The truth , however , is , that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument ; and therefore would some- times in conversation maintain opinions which he was sensible were wrong , but in supporting which ...
... learned to play at cards . " The truth , however , is , that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument ; and therefore would some- times in conversation maintain opinions which he was sensible were wrong , but in supporting which ...
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... learned all that can be got by the ear . He abused Pindar to me , and then showed me an ode of his own , with an absurd couplet , making a linnet soar on an eagle's wing . I told him that when the ancients made a simile , they always ...
... learned all that can be got by the ear . He abused Pindar to me , and then showed me an ode of his own , with an absurd couplet , making a linnet soar on an eagle's wing . I told him that when the ancients made a simile , they always ...
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... learned Baxter in his edition of Horace , " Difficile est propriè communia dicere , h . e . res vulgares disertis verbis enarrare , vel humile thema cum dignitate tractare . Difficile est communes res propriis explicare verbis . Vet ...
... learned Baxter in his edition of Horace , " Difficile est propriè communia dicere , h . e . res vulgares disertis verbis enarrare , vel humile thema cum dignitate tractare . Difficile est communes res propriis explicare verbis . Vet ...
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Página 178 - 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...
Página 177 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 358 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Página 307 - You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher ; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Página 183 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 201 - Solitude, romantic maid! Whether by nodding towers you tread ; Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom, Or hover o'er the yawning tomb ; Or climb the Andes' clifted side, Or by the Nile's coy source abide : Or, starting from your half-year's sleep, From Hecla view the thawing deep : Or, at the purple dawn of day...
Página 270 - I will not be put to the question. Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, "Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Página 64 - 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.
Página 267 - Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Página 313 - I met him (said he) at Lord Clare's house' in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man.