The Miscellaneous Writings, Speeches and Poems, Volumen 2Longmans, Green, 1880 |
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Página 64 - It is easy, therefore, to imagine what humiliations and privations must have awaited the novice who had still to earn a name. One of the publishers to whom Johnson applied for employment measured with a scornful eye that athletic though uncouth frame, and exclaimed, " You had better get a porter's knot, and carry trunks.
Página 206 - had he told us of— •' An universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good. Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds Perverse
Página 84 - most loved and honoured him had little to say in, praise of the manner in which he had discharged the duty of a commentator. He had, however, acquitted himself of a debt which had long lain heavy on his conscience; and he sank back into the repose from which the sting of satire had roused him. He long
Página 320 - in sickness,— society in solitude ? Her power is indeed manifested at the bar, in the senate, in the field of battle, in the schools of philosophy. But these are not her glory. Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain,—
Página 298 - his customers. The demagogues who wished to see Portugal a republic, and the wise critics who revile the Virginians for not having instituted a peerage, appear equally ridiculous to all men of sense and candour. That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make
Página 76 - Citizen, the Everlasting Club, the Dunmow Flitch, the Loves of Hilpah and Shalum, the Visit to the Exchange, and the Visit to the Abbey, are known to everybody. But many men and women, even of highly cultivated minds, are unacquainted with Squire Bluster and Mrs. Busy, Quisquilius and Venustulus, the Allegory of Wit and Learning, the Chronicle of the
Página 321 - to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple; and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts;—her influence and her glory will still survive,—fresh in eternal youth, exempt from mutability and decay, immortal as the intellectual principle from which they derived their origin, and over which they exercise their control.
Página 65 - advice bad; for a porter was likely to be as plentifully fed, and as comfortably lodged, as a poet. Some time appears to have elapsed before Johnson was able to form any literary connexion from which he could expect
Página 97 - received four thousand five hundred pounds for the History of Charles V.; and it is no disrespect to the memory of Eobertson to say that the History of Charles V. is both a less valuable and a less amusing book than the Lives of the Poets.
Página 345 - prerogatives and the constitutional rights of the Peers. What facts does my honorable friend produce in support of his opinion ? One fact only; and that a fact which has absolutely nothing to do with the question. The effect of this Keform, he tells us, would be to make the