Samuel Johnson livro A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Samuel Johnson: Frases em inglês
Frases em inglês.Samuel Johnson: 456 citações36 Curtidas
1754
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.”
January 9, 1758
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
George Steevens, 310
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
Samuel Johnson livro The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Fonte: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 3
Samuel Johnson The Idler
No. 58 (May 26, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
March 21, 1776, p. 287
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“LEXICOGRAPHER — A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.”
Samuel Johnson livro A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Samuel Johnson livro The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Fonte: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 28
September 14, 1777, p. 341
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
July 31, 1763, p. 132. [Several editions have the variant "hind legs".]
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
Kearsley, 606
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
London: A Poem (1738) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/london2.html, lines 158–161
“An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.”
Fonte: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 293
Samuel Johnson livro A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth
October 5, 1773
Recounted as a common saying of physicians at the time.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
“Officious, innocent, sincere,
Of every friendless name the friend.”
Stanza 2
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)
Samuel Johnson The Rambler
No. 50 (8 September 1750); often misattributed to Joseph Addison
The Rambler (1750–1752)
1754, p. 72 (n. 4)
Referring to critics
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I