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«Milton . . . was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.»
«Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep / But hear his death, ye blockheads! hear and sleep.»
«BOSWELL: Sir, you observed one day . . . that a man is never happy for the present, but when he is drunk. Will you not add, - or when driving rapidly in a post-chaise? JOHNSON: No, Sir, you are driving rapidly from something, or to something.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Boswell, chaise, Johnson, post chaise, rapidly
«I would advise no man to marry, Sir, . . . who is not likely to propagate understanding.»
«If you call a dog Harvey, I shall love him.»
«Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.»
«Greek, Sir, . . . is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.»
«Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . `Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.'»
«I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
consolidate, consolidated, consolidates, consolidating, generates
«I do not like much to see a Whig in any dress; but I hate to see a Whig in a parson's gown.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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dressing gown, gowns, parson, Parsons, Whig, Whigs
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