Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker]. |
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Other editions - View all
Johnsoniana; Or Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr ... James Boswell No preview available - 2017 |
Johnsoniana; Or Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr ... James Boswell No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance added affected ANECDOTES answered appeared asked attention believe better Bolt Court Boswell called character common conversation dear death delight desired dinner Doctor expressed eyes fear feel Garrick gave give hand hear heard heart honour hope hour human John Johnson kind knew knowledge known lady late learning least leave less lived look Lord Madam manner master mean mentioned mind Miss morning nature never observed occasion once opinion particularly passed perhaps person pleased pleasure poor praise present reason received remark remember repeated replied respect returned Reynolds seemed Sir Joshua soon speak story suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale told took true truth turn virtue wish write written young
Popular passages
Page 388 - In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain...
Page 467 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 439 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Page 373 - 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...
Page 467 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord...
Page 384 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Page 391 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places; they are natural, and therefore durable.
Page 315 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Page 390 - Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Page 384 - Whoever considers the weakness both of himself and others, will not long want persuasives to forgiveness. We know not to what degree of malignity any injury is to be imputed ; or how much its guilt, if we were to inspect the mind of him that committed it, would be extenuated by mistake, precipitance, or negligence ; we cannot be certain...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker]. |
| Editor | John Wilson Croker |
| Contributor | James Boswell |
| Published | 1836 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
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