 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 pages
...His mind resembled the vast amphitheatre, the Colisaeum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which, like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions...ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drove them back into their dens; but not killing them, they were still assailing him. To my question,... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 pages
...the Colisseum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which like a mighty gladiator, combatted those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of...but not killing them, they were still assailing him" (II.1o6). The affinity of the Life with formal tragedy lies in the story of Johnson's personal struggle... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 pages
...(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), pp. 431-2. l o. His mind resembled the vast amphitheatre, the Colisaeum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgment, which like...all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. (AD 1 769); quoted from Boswell's Life of Johnson. Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...of Johnson's mind as a "vast amphitheatre, the Colisasum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which, like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions...ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drove them back into their dens; but not killing them, they were still assailing him." Here the fears... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pages
..."His mind resembled the vast amphitheatre, the Coliseum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which, like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions...all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him." 10. Gibbon's "epitaph on his dead love affair," as Robert Folkenflik calls it, has a literary resonance... | |
 | Richard H. Schmidt - 2002 - 364 pages
...life in these words: "His mind resembled the vast amphitheatre, the Colisaeum at Rome. In the center stood his judgment, which, like a mighty gladiator,...ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drove them back into their dens; but not killing them, they were still assailing him." What, then,... | |
 | David Benatar - 2004 - 422 pages
...death." ... I was in the wrong, to bring before his view what he ever looked upon with horrour. ... To my question, whether we might not fortify our minds...answered, in a passion, "No, Sir. let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short... | |
 | Thomas Alured Faunce - 2005 - 676 pages
...own existence with horror." "His mind" wrote Boswell "resembled that vast amphitheatre, the Colisoeum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgment, which,...all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him." "No Sir" answers Dr Johnson "it matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not... | |
 | Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 pages
...His mind resembled the vast amphitheatre, the Colisaeum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which, like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions...ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drove them back into their dens; but not killing them, they were still assailing him.561 Der Kampf... | |
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Nature's signal for retreat," from this state of being to " a happier seat," his thoughts upon this awful change were in general full of dismal apprehensions. His mind resembled the vast amphitheatre, the Coliseum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgment,... 
