... her husband, in his usurious business. She was a resolute, clear-sighted, keen woman, that did not love money, but loved to be rich and push her way ... ...sixpence. He little knew that the names of those two young men were—Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage.) 159 Thackeray ANOTHER LAST CHAPTER. MR. HAYES...

...h human science; has a far firmer hold upon the tiller of his story; has a keen sense of character, which he draws (and Scott often does so too) in a ... ... of his nature into his work, and impregnate it from end to end. If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswe... ...da was regarded by his schol- ars as a laughing-stock. The schoolboy has a keen sense of humour. Heroes he learns to understand and to admire in books... ...een Dutch teachers admitted into Nangasaki, and the coun- try at large was keen for the new learning. But though the renaissance had begun, it was imp... ...until they were fast friends. For picklocks the Prior of Paray professed a keen curiosity; but T abary, upon some late alarm, had thrown all his into ... ...yond the reach of want, before writing the Old Vagabond or Jacques. Samuel Johnson, although he was very sorry to be poor, “was a great arguer for the... ...and retained, after death, the art of making friends, Montaigne and Samuel Johnson certainly stand first. But we have portraits of all sorts of men, f... ...s hence is unmistakable. He de- sires that dear, though unknown, gentleman keenly to realise his predecessor; to remember why a passage was uncleanly ...

... astonish us by sallies, witty, innocent and inhumane; and by a misapplied Johnsonian pleasantry, demolish honest sentiment. I can still see and hear ... ...d banished these boyish recollections from his heart. Indeed, he was a man keenly alive to the beauty of all that was bygone. He abounded in old stori... ...came to him unaware. CHAPTER X TALK AND TALKERS Sir, we had a good talk. – Johnson. As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle ... ...ber four different passages which I heard, before I was ten, with the same keen and lasting pleasure. One I discovered long afterwards to be the admi-... ...on of a real series of events or of an imaginary series. Boswell’s Life of Johnson (a work of cunning and inimitable art) owes its success to the same...