Samuel Johnson als BiographPreilipper, 1937 - 59 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 24
Page 7
... have betaken themselves to error . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expense of truth , what fame might I ...
... have betaken themselves to error . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expense of truth , what fame might I ...
Page 19
... have been written ; but my mind has neither been improved nor enlarged . I have read little , almost nothing . And I am not conscious that I have gained any good , or quitted any evil habits . Of resolutions I have made so many , with ...
... have been written ; but my mind has neither been improved nor enlarged . I have read little , almost nothing . And I am not conscious that I have gained any good , or quitted any evil habits . Of resolutions I have made so many , with ...
Page 32
... have been impatient , violent and ungovernabl Her desires were too hot for delay , and she liked self - murder better suspense ... Poetry has not often been worse employed than in dignif the amorous fury of a raving girl106 ...
... have been impatient , violent and ungovernabl Her desires were too hot for delay , and she liked self - murder better suspense ... Poetry has not often been worse employed than in dignif the amorous fury of a raving girl106 ...
Common terms and phrases
Ablehnung Addison allusion Ansichten Antike appears ästhetischen Kritik Ausdruck ausführlich Äußerung Ausspruch beauty of thought Bedeutung Begriff Belehrung bemerkt Johnson besonders Boswell censure Charakter Charakteristik criticism daher Darstellung Darstellungsweise Dedikation delight desire Dichter Dichtkunst Dichtung Drydens easily EMIL WOLFF endeavours ersten ethischen fast first Forderung formed Gedicht geht geistigen genius Geschichte der Werke gibt give gleichen good graphie great groß Halifax Haltung heißt hervor höchsten human Ilias Inhalt instruction Johnsons Auffassung Johnsons eigene Jugendwerke know knowledge kritischen läßt Leben Lebensbeschreibung Lebenslauf lich life Literatur little Lives love Lycidas mankind Menschen metaphysical poets Miltons mind moral muß nature never notwendig opinion Paradise Lost persönlichen pleasure poetische poetry poets Popes power Prinzipien propriety Rambl read reason sagt Johnson Samuel Johnson Schärfe schließt Schönheit seems Shakespeare Sinne soll sometimes Stoff Studien Subordination Subskription taught time truth Universität Hamburg Urteil virtue Wahrheit Wert wesentlich wieder Wiedergabe wirklich work world writer zeigt