Samuel Johnson, Minim the Critic
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at a very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature upon few, and the labour of learning those sciences, which may by mere labour be obtained, is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert such judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a Critick.
When we’ve wronged someone, we usually hope for forgiveness. Usually. However, it isn’t always that the granting of the pardon puts us at ease. Some of us must have known the distress …
Samuel Johnson, Memory rarely deficient:
Others I have found unalterably persuaded, that nothing is certainly remembered but what is transcribed; and they have, therefore, passed weeks and months in …
Samuel Johnson, Easy Writing:
To require from any author many pieces of easy poetry, would be indeed to oppress him with too hard a task. It is less difficult to write a volume of lines swelled with …
Samuel Johnson, Rhetorical Action Considered:
compared with the conversion of sinners, propriety and elegance are less than nothing.
Entire paragraph…
It is, perhaps, the character of the …
Samuel Johnson, Obstructions of learning:
It is the great excellence of learning, that it borrows very little from time or place; it is not confined to season or to climate, to cities or to the …
Finished reading: The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis 📚
In addition to Spurgeon’s Mornings and Evenings, I have been using this as my devotional. Meaning to get into Thomas Merton’s The New Man
A link to his, well, blog 😂
Look what I found! A website of T. S. Eliot, and I expect most of his work.
T. S.Eliot, Tradition and Individual Talent:
It is not in his personal emotions, the emotions provoked by particular events in his life, that the poet is in any way remarkable or interesting. His …