“El patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas.”
Variante: El patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas".
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Frases célebres de Samuel Johnson
Frases de vida de Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Frases y Citas
The Idler, nº 11 (24 de junio de 1758). <br class="br">Fuente: En gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12050
Variante de la traducción: «Las diminutas cadenas de los hábitos son generalmente demasiado pequeñas para sentirlas, hasta que llegan a ser demasiado fuertes para romperlas».
“Ser necio de nacimiento es una enfermedad incurable.”
Atribución dudosa: En el Dicc. de citas de Luis Señor, aparece atribuida a Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. <br class="br">Fuente: "Frases célebres de hombres célebres" https://books.google.es/books?id=3qJPAAAAMAAJ&q=%C2%ABSer+necio+de+nacimiento+es+una+enfermedad+incurable%C2%BB.&dq=%C2%ABSer+necio+de+nacimiento+es+una+enfermedad+incurable%C2%BB.&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimyuPdlMbiAhWFyqQKHY3VBA8Q6AEILjAB Compilado por Manuel Pumarega. Editorial México, 1949 (3ª ed.); página 320. <br class="br">Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 423
Samuel Johnson: Frases en inglés
“Language is the dress of thought.”
The Life of Cowley
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
September 19, 1777, p. 351, often misquoted as being hanged in the morning.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Fuente: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
“Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.”
1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.”
Letter to Boswell. Dec. 8, 1763
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.”
Samuel Johnson The Idler
No. 39 (January 13, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”
April 15, 1778, p. 392
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Samuel Johnson libro A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.”
1783, p. 501
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
April 28, 1778, p. 404
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Letter to Hester Thrale (12 April 1781) http://books.google.com/books?id=184WAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA736
“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.”
Samuel Johnson libro The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Fuente: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 47
1775, p. 273
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.”
1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
December 13, 1784 (Last words)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
July 6, 1763, p. 120
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“CLUB — An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.”
Samuel Johnson libro A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Fuente: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller
February 7, 1754 (Letter to Lord Chesterfield)
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“OATS — A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”
Samuel Johnson libro A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101 <br class="br">Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
The Life of Gray
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Fuente: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 266
The Life of Milton
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre (1747)
August 6, 1763, p. 134
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,
No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.”
Fuente: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 193
