The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...Harper & Brothers, 1840 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
admired appears ardour Brocklesby calamities cause censure character Colley Cibber consider contempt conversation crimes danger death delight desire dread duty Earse effects elegance eminent endeavour equally essays evil excellence eyes fame favour fear folly fortune frequently friendship Garrick genius Gentleman's Magazine give happiness heart honour hope hour human imagination incited inclined indulge Johnson kind knowledge known labour Learning lence less lives long con Lord Lord Bute Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter mankind melancholy ment mind misery moral nature ness never objects observed opinion ourselves pain passions perhaps pleased pleasure praise Rambler reason regard rest riches SAMUEL JOHNSON Satire of Juvenal says seems seldom Sir John Hawkins soon sophism sorrow Streatham suffer things thought tion Topham Beauclerk Trans truth vanity vice vigour virtue wish writer younger Pliny
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 35 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
الصفحة 242 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
الصفحة 28 - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
الصفحة 69 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
الصفحة 242 - All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
الصفحة 259 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
الصفحة 245 - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
الصفحة 183 - ... to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
الصفحة 272 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
الصفحة 100 - ... to obviate ; for such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labour and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other ; such are the changes that keep the mind in action ; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated ; we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit.