The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 54A. Constable, 1831 |
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... effect . With Boswell's book the case is stronger . There is scarcely , in the whole compass of literature , a book which bears interpolation so ill . We know no production of the human mind which has so much of what may be called the ...
... effect . With Boswell's book the case is stronger . There is scarcely , in the whole compass of literature , a book which bears interpolation so ill . We know no production of the human mind which has so much of what may be called the ...
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... men who have pretended to lay open their own hearts - Rousseau , for example , and Lord Byron , -have evidently written with a constant view to effect , and are to be then 18 Croker's Edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson . Sept.
... men who have pretended to lay open their own hearts - Rousseau , for example , and Lord Byron , -have evidently written with a constant view to effect , and are to be then 18 Croker's Edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson . Sept.
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Or Critical Journal. constant view to effect , and are to be then most distrusted when they seem to be most sincere . There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes , and of dark and tempestuous passions ...
Or Critical Journal. constant view to effect , and are to be then most distrusted when they seem to be most sincere . There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes , and of dark and tempestuous passions ...
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... effect of opposite arguments . These things were in themselves an education - an education eminently fitted , not , indeed , to form exact or profound thinkers , but to give quickness to the perceptions , delicacy to the taste , fluency ...
... effect of opposite arguments . These things were in themselves an education - an education eminently fitted , not , indeed , to form exact or profound thinkers , but to give quickness to the perceptions , delicacy to the taste , fluency ...
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... effect , at least , is neither obscure nor insignifi- cant . Knowledge void of ostentation , and wisdom that takes us by surprise , are sure of commanding the attention , since they begin by engaging the heart . Of the seemingly ...
... effect , at least , is neither obscure nor insignifi- cant . Knowledge void of ostentation , and wisdom that takes us by surprise , are sure of commanding the attention , since they begin by engaging the heart . Of the seemingly ...
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Page 4 - 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.
Page 3 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. By T. BOWDLEB, Esq. FRS New Edition, in Volumes for the Pocket ; with 36 Wood Engravings, from Designs by Smirke, Howard, and other Artists.
Page 20 - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
Page 87 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Page 24 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches; we see the heavy form rolling; we hear it puffing; and then comes the " Why, sir !
Page 86 - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Page 433 - The way, hardly discernible in gloom, runs close by the mouth of the burning pit, which sends forth its flames, its noisome smoke, and its hideous shapes, to terrify the adventurer. Thence he goes on, amidst the snares and pitfalls, with the mangled bodies of those who have perished lying in the ditch by his side. At the end...
Page 15 - Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues. Alas ! sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
Page 2 - We arc not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all.
Page 438 - I walked," says he, with his own peculiar eloquence, to a neighbouring town ; and sat down upon a settle in the street, and fell into a very deep pause about the most fearful state my sin had brought me to ; and after long musing, I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light; and as if the very stones in the street, and tiles upon the houses, did band themselves against me.