The Quarterly Review, 282. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1942 |
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Page 441
... Johnson : I believe they might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford . A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden . ' It was Johnson's facility for giving a sudden turn ...
... Johnson : I believe they might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford . A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden . ' It was Johnson's facility for giving a sudden turn ...
Page 443
... Johnson's conversation could be . At every stage in his career it ' teemed with point and imagery . ' Boswell is inclined to attribute Johnson's exercise of the imagination to the fact that he was a philosopher , for he says ...
... Johnson's conversation could be . At every stage in his career it ' teemed with point and imagery . ' Boswell is inclined to attribute Johnson's exercise of the imagination to the fact that he was a philosopher , for he says ...
Page 445
... Johnson lived in an age of conversationalists : know more of him than of his contemporaries because we have the printed memorabilia of his talk . In the eigh- teenth century , the coffee house , the club , and the salon flourished , and ...
... Johnson lived in an age of conversationalists : know more of him than of his contemporaries because we have the printed memorabilia of his talk . In the eigh- teenth century , the coffee house , the club , and the salon flourished , and ...
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