...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu d' Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary...

...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu d' Esprit upon the following passage , in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary:...

...differ as to some point : I am only saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho, in Ovid." * He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not...make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he wilt soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair." Amid the cold...

...are cold and dulJ. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu <F Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary...

...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to •ustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....for literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a fittle Jeu d'Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the...

...A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing." At a late period of his life he said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not...sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." During a visit at Oxford, the following conversation passed between the doctor and Mr. Boswell on the...

...affectionate temper and bright fancy will coalesce a great deal sooner than those who are cold and dull. man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little jeu d1 esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary:...

...pliancy ; and1 the pliant, without firmness ; resemble vessels without water, and water without vessels. If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. Sin is the fruitful parent of distempers, and ill lives...

...meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money. — Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. MCXXXVf. If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair — Johnson. Mcxxxvn. How is it possible to expect that...

...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little jeu d' esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary...