 No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditation and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the...  Select British Classics - Page 41803Full view - About this book
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 pages
...see their edifices perish as they are towering to completion, and those few that for a while attract the eye of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation, and soon sink by the saps of time' (Yale, rv, 2oo). 14 In the end, Johnson was memorialised both by statues and by an edition of his writings.... | |
 | New York Times Staff - 2001 - 1284 pages
...wide pool of readers. The imbalance depressed him. Here's what he wrote in Issue 106 of The Rambler: "No place affords a more striking conviction of the...every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalog." Now we're not even going... | |
 | Richard Yeo - 2001 - 370 pages
...great encyclopaedia projected into architectural space'. Samuel Johnson reacted to this with dismay: 'No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious... | |
 | 210 pages
...sin Is pride that apes humility. - Colette, French novelist - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet No place affords a more striking conviction of the...every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue. — Samuel Johnson, 18th-century... | |
 | David Bouchier - 2005 - 252 pages
...the high priests of loneliness, and the benefactors of humankind. 7 Your Fabulous Public Library 'ce affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Dr. Samuel Johnson The history of libraries goes back to way before the printed book, and it's really... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...perish as they are towering to completion, and those few that for a while attract the eye R. II. a of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation,...striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1958 - 192 pages
...with the dispassionate realism of the detached observer: No place [Tie wrote in the 106th Rambler^ affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious... | |
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