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Pagina 172
... Boswell on the advantage of knowledge , ' called to the boy [ who was rowing them ] , " What would you give , my lad , to know about the Argonauts ? " " Sir , " said the boy , " I would give what I have . " Johnson was much pleased with ...
... Boswell on the advantage of knowledge , ' called to the boy [ who was rowing them ] , " What would you give , my lad , to know about the Argonauts ? " " Sir , " said the boy , " I would give what I have . " Johnson was much pleased with ...
Pagina 185
... Boswell's Life of Johnson , iii . 378 . 1. 15. It is .... ' To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches , and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others , and his idle- ness from ...
... Boswell's Life of Johnson , iii . 378 . 1. 15. It is .... ' To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches , and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others , and his idle- ness from ...
Pagina 199
... Boswell ' objected , " Is not harmless pleasure very tame ? " JOHNSON : " Nay , Sir , harmless pleasure is the highest praise . Pleasure is a word of dubious import ; pleasure is in general dangerous and pernicious to virtue ; to be ...
... Boswell ' objected , " Is not harmless pleasure very tame ? " JOHNSON : " Nay , Sir , harmless pleasure is the highest praise . Pleasure is a word of dubious import ; pleasure is in general dangerous and pernicious to virtue ; to be ...
Termeni și expresii frecvente
Abyssinia Anatomy of Melancholy answered Imlac Arab astronomer Bassa began Boswell Boswell's Cairo CHAPTER choice companions considered conversation curiosity Cymbeline danger death delight desire Dictionary dreadful Egypt endeavoured enjoy entered evil eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly friends happy valley heard honour hope hour Human Wishes imagination inquire Janissaries Janizaries Johnson defines knowledge labour lady learning less live looked lost maids mankind marriage melan mind misery mountains Mughal nature Nekayah never Nile observed once opinion Paradise Lost passed passion Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet Post prince princess Pyramid Rambler Rasselas reason resolved returned sage Samuel Johnson says scrupulosity silent solitude sometimes soon sorrow soul sound of music Streatham suffer suppose talk Thomas Carlyle thou thought travelled Vanity of Human virtue weary wisdom wonder wrote youth