Samuel Johnson najznámejšie citáty
Samuel Johnson Citáty o ľuďoch
Samuel Johnson citáty a výroky
„Druhé manželstvo: triumf nádejí nad skúsenosťami.“
Varianta: Manželstvo je triumf nádeje nad skúsenosťou.
Samuel Johnson: Citáty v angličtine
“I am glad that he thanks God for anything.”
1755
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”
June 1784, p. 545
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the bold
Fall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.”
Zdroj: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 21
“A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.”
Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Zdroj: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 12
“He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.”
1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Chap. lxxii.
1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”
On the subject of ghosts, March 31, 1778, p. 373
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.”
Prayers and Meditations, Against Inquisitive and Perplexing Thoughts (1785)
May 1, 1783, p. 513
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Samuel Johnson kniha A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
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 kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Zdroj: 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 kniha A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Samuel Johnson kniha The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Zdroj: 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.”
Zdroj: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 293
Samuel Johnson kniha 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
