Сэмюэл Джонсон: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 4)
Сэмюэл Джонсон было английский критик, лексикограф, поэт. Цитаты на английском языке.“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”
Источник: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
July 14, 1763, p. 121
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
Источник: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”
28 April 1778, p. 659 http://books.google.com/books?id=yYphdZ0abhUC&q="One+of+the+disadvantages+of+wine+it+makes+a+man+mistake+words+for+thoughts"&pg=PA659#v=onepage
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Источник: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
No. 58 (May 26, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
Источник: The Idler; Poems
Контексте: Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
April 10, 1776, p. 305
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Recalling "what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils" April 30, 1773, p. 217
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Источник: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
“Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?”
Источник: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
“New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.”
The Life of Pope
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
Letter to James Boswell, October 27, 1779, p. 433
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Источник: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
Источник: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.”
1783, p. 500
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
Источник: The Life of Johnson, Vol 4
“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
A Review http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/jenyns.html of Soame Jenyns' A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, published in the first volume of Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces (London, 1774), p. 23
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
No. 2 (24 March 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=2&division=div1
Источник: The Rambler (1750–1752)