Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1887 - Authors, English |
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... given fresh information , and caused many an addition , and not a few corrections moreover to be made , in passages which I had previously presumed to think already complete . Had it been merely the biography of a great man of letters ...
... given fresh information , and caused many an addition , and not a few corrections moreover to be made , in passages which I had previously presumed to think already complete . Had it been merely the biography of a great man of letters ...
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... given a re- ference . While the minute examination that I have so often had to make of Boswell's narrative has done nothing but strengthen my trust in his statements and my admiration of his laborious truthfulness , yet in one respect I ...
... given a re- ference . While the minute examination that I have so often had to make of Boswell's narrative has done nothing but strengthen my trust in his statements and my admiration of his laborious truthfulness , yet in one respect I ...
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... , vi . xxii . 10 Post , i . 39 , n . I. 7 Post , iv . 8 , n . 3 . II Post , iii . 340 , n . 2 . 9 8 Post , i . 489 , 518 . Post , iv . 223 , n . 3 . 12 Post , i . 103 , n . 3 . demanded Preface . xix demanded more space than could be given.
... , vi . xxii . 10 Post , i . 39 , n . I. 7 Post , iv . 8 , n . 3 . II Post , iii . 340 , n . 2 . 9 8 Post , i . 489 , 518 . Post , iv . 223 , n . 3 . 12 Post , i . 103 , n . 3 . demanded Preface . xix demanded more space than could be given.
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... given them in the narrow limits of a foot - note . In the twelve pages of the essay on Johnson's Debates in Parliament ' I have compressed the result of the reading of many weeks . In examining the character of George Psalmanazar I have ...
... given them in the narrow limits of a foot - note . In the twelve pages of the essay on Johnson's Debates in Parliament ' I have compressed the result of the reading of many weeks . In examining the character of George Psalmanazar I have ...
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... given . Some of the corrections and additions in the third edition that were undoubtedly from his hand were of considerable importance . I have retained Boswell's spelling in accordance with the wish that he expressed in the preface to ...
... given . Some of the corrections and additions in the third edition that were undoubtedly from his hand were of considerable importance . I have retained Boswell's spelling in accordance with the wish that he expressed in the preface to ...
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Page 262 - ... 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 195 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Page 351 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 496 - Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely royal. Dennis is offended that Menenius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential character is not very careful of distinctions superinduced and adventitious. His story requires Romans or Kings,...
Page 443 - ... Sir, I love the acquaintance of young people ; because, in the first place, I don't like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old men ; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. I love the young dogs of this age, they have more wit and humour and knowledge of life than we had, but then the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad...
Page xxiii - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Page 395 - Sir, (said I,) I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow me to sit and hear you." He seemed pleased with this compliment, which I sincerely paid him, and answered, "Sir, I am obliged to any man who visits me.
Page 423 - Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign, he observed, "I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them. He was the most universal genius, being an excellent physician, a man of deep learning, and a man of much humour. Mr. Addison was, to be sure, a great man : his learning was not profound ; but his morality, his humour, and his elegance of writing, set him very high.
Page 314 - ... a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with Tea amuses the evening, with Tea solaces the midnight, and with Tea welcomes the morning.
Page 410 - His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck.