Quotes about Johnson

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

Johnson, Collins, Fielding, and Thomson, were certainly four of the most distinguished persons that England produced during the eighteenth century. It is well known that they were all four arrested for debt.

ÆGILOPS  (Æ'GILOPS)   n.s.[Gr. signifying goat-eyed, the goat being subject to this ailment.] A tumour or swelling in the great corner of the eye, by the root of the nose, either with or without an inflammation: also a plant so called, for its supposed virtues

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

ANACEPHALÆOSIS  (ANACEPHALÆO'SIS)   n.s.[   or summary of the principal heads of a discourse.Dict.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.