| James Boswell - 1923 - 372 σελίδες
...appeared strong to-night. I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death ; therefore I could suppose another man in that...it had been observed, that scarce any man dies in public, but with apparent resolution; from that desire of praise which never quits us. I said, Dr.... | |
| James Boswell - 1928 - 364 σελίδες
...In 1777 Boswell told Johnson (Life of J., 3. 174), I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death; therefore I could suppose another man in that...mind for a considerable space of time. He said, "he had never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him." This feeling is borne out by Johnson's... | |
| Howard Marget Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, Lee Palmer Wandel - 1998 - 244 σελίδες
...Boswell, even Dr. Johnson, that most reasonable of men and also a devout Christian, confessed he had "never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him." "No rational man," he declared, "can die without uneasy apprehension" (1933, 2:117, 223, 524)- The... | |
| Leonard Feinberg - 2002 - 236 σελίδες
...expression of his own peculiar temperament rather than a balanced worldview. Boswell tells us that Johnson said "he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him." Attempting to explain Johnson's pessimism, Boswell blames heredity. Johnson's father, he says, had... | |
| 1956 - 356 σελίδες
...James Boswell said to him that there had been times when he had not feared death. Johnson answered that 'he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him'. Once, Mrs Knowles told him that he should not have a horror for that which is the gate of life. Johnson... | |
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