Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose WritingsJ. Blackwood, 1875 - Всего страниц: 298 |
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... performance . Some are too indolent to read anything till its reputation is established ; others too envious to promote that fame which gives them pain by its increase . What is new is opposed , because most are unwilling to be taught ...
... performance . Some are too indolent to read anything till its reputation is established ; others too envious to promote that fame which gives them pain by its increase . What is new is opposed , because most are unwilling to be taught ...
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... performances frequently revive it . Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard , and there are few who do not at some unlucky time , injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them . I have been often inclined to doubt ...
... performances frequently revive it . Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard , and there are few who do not at some unlucky time , injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them . I have been often inclined to doubt ...
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... performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness , to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies , and display the minute details of daily life , where exterior append- ages are cast aside , and men excel each other only by ...
... performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness , to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies , and display the minute details of daily life , where exterior append- ages are cast aside , and men excel each other only by ...
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... him as " careful of his health , and negligent of his life . " Biography has often been alloted to writers who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the performance . They 38 BIOGRAPHY .
... him as " careful of his health , and negligent of his life . " Biography has often been alloted to writers who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the performance . They 38 BIOGRAPHY .
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... performance . They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from public papers , but imagine them- selves writing a life , when they exhibit a chrono- logical series of actions and preferments ; and so little regard the ...
... performance . They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from public papers , but imagine them- selves writing a life , when they exhibit a chrono- logical series of actions and preferments ; and so little regard the ...
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Стр. 25 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such...
Стр. 170 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Стр. 244 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Стр. 228 - The accidental compositions of heterogeneous modes are dissolved by the chance which combined them; but the uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither admits increase, nor suffers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another, but the rock always continues in its place. The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
Стр. 130 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.
Стр. 126 - But, the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind.
Стр. 249 - He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
Стр. 26 - There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances. 'Let me remember (says Hale) when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.
Стр. 223 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.