The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers |
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 10 - ... the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father*.
עמוד 53 - ... what contemptible men were the authors of it. He was not without hopes that, by...
עמוד 214 - Nor are such the only opponents of great enterprises : there are some men, of narrow views and grovelling conceptions, who, without the instigation of personal malice, treat every new attempt as wild and chimerical, and look upon every endeavour to depart from the beaten track as the rash effort of a warm imagination, or the glittering speculation of an exalted mind, that may please and dazzle for a time, but can produce no real or lasting advantage.
עמוד 89 - Bastard, he laments in a very affecting manner : ——No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer ; No father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd, Call'd forth my virtues, or from vice restrain'd.
עמוד 20 - During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance he was without lodging, and often without meat; nor had he any other conveniences for study than the fields or the streets allowed him; there he used to walk and form his speeches, and afterwards step into a shop, beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink, and write down what he had composed upon paper which he had picked up by accident.
עמוד 170 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
עמוד 69 - It was his peculiar happiness, that he scarcely ever found a stranger, whom he did not leave a friend ; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long, without obliging him to become a stranger.
עמוד 1 - IT has been observed in all ages, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness ; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station...
עמוד 288 - ... the Spaniards comforted themselves with the belief, that they were devils and not men who had destroyed them in such a manner.
מידע ביבליוגרפי
| כותרת | The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers |
| מאת | Samuel Johnson |
| מהדורה | 4 |
| הוצאה | Newbery, 1777 |
| מקור מאת | האוניברסיטה של מישיגן |
| דיגיטלי | 29 מאי 2007 |
| אורך | 298 עמודים |
| ייצא ציטוט ביביליוגרפי | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |