Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen2Hart, Carey & Hart, 1854 |
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... talent for finding out difficulty in what is perfectly plain . man , " said Johnson , " can now be made a bishop for his learning and piety . " " From this too just observation , " says Boswell , " there are some eminent exceptions ...
... talent for finding out difficulty in what is perfectly plain . man , " said Johnson , " can now be made a bishop for his learning and piety . " " From this too just observation , " says Boswell , " there are some eminent exceptions ...
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... talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence as writers , he had absolutely none . There is not , in all his books , a single remark of his own on literature , politics , re- ligion , or society , which is not either commonplace or ...
... talents which ordinarily raise men to eminence as writers , he had absolutely none . There is not , in all his books , a single remark of his own on literature , politics , re- ligion , or society , which is not either commonplace or ...
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... talents for composition which would have made him eminent without the aid of a coronet . Montague owed his elevation to the favour of Dorset , and imitated through the whole course of his life the liberality to which he was himself so ...
... talents for composition which would have made him eminent without the aid of a coronet . Montague owed his elevation to the favour of Dorset , and imitated through the whole course of his life the liberality to which he was himself so ...
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... talents for government and for debate ; but he had paid little at- tention to books , and felt little respect for authors . One of the coarse jokes of his friend , Sir Charles Hanbury Wil- liams , was far more pleasing to him than ...
... talents for government and for debate ; but he had paid little at- tention to books , and felt little respect for authors . One of the coarse jokes of his friend , Sir Charles Hanbury Wil- liams , was far more pleasing to him than ...
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... talent for personation as Johnson . Whether he wrote in the character of a disappointed lega- cy - hunter or an empty town fop , of a crazy virtuoso or a flippant coquette , he wrote in the same pompous and un- bending style . His ...
... talent for personation as Johnson . Whether he wrote in the character of a disappointed lega- cy - hunter or an empty town fop , of a crazy virtuoso or a flippant coquette , he wrote in the same pompous and un- bending style . His ...
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Página 45 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Página 169 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Página 411 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 165 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Página 53 - This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Página 215 - He was, unless we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character, the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious of men. His mind was a bundle of inconsistent whims and affectations. His features were covered by mask within mask. When the outer disguise of obvious affectation was removed, you were still as far as ever from seeing the real man.
Página 349 - England's high Chancellor, the destined heir, In his soft cradle , to his father's chair, Whose even thread the Fates spin round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool.
Página 32 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book.
Página 297 - ... which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No...
Página 46 - I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases?' SIR ADAM: 'But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown.