Johnson : Samuel (1709-84), English poet, essayist, critic, journalist, lexicographer.
... was followed by a reaction in favour of the eighteenth-century ideal. This movement had been already anticipated by Johnson who wrote contemporaneously with Gray & even with Thomson. It was now taken up by Goldsmith, carried on by Churchill & culminated in Erasmus Darwin. Johnson & Goldsmith returned to the ideals of Pope, they violently opposed & disparaged Gray, they kept to the use of the heroic... Thomson, Dyer, Green, Young and other inferior writers. (2) The school of Miltonic Hellenists, begun by Warton &consisting besides of Gray, Collins, Akenside and a number of followers. (3) The school of Johnson, Goldsmith & Churchill, who continued the eighteenth-century style tho' some of them tried to infuse it with emotion, directness and greater simplicity. To this school belong the minor writers who... translations from the Norse. This impulse towards the supernatural is extremely marked in Gray & finds its way even into his humorous poems; & tho' less prominent in Collins, it was sufficient to offend Johnson, the chief critic of the Pope school, who especially animadverts on it in his life of Collins & his remarks on Gray's sister Odes. Again they tried to deal with human emotion but there also they were ...
... Darwinism. Initially the most vocal one was Phillip Johnson, professor of law and Christian convert, who published Darwin on Trial in 1991. The reader may remember that, by then, the sociobiologists Edward Wilson and Richard Dawkins had published their supposedly ‘arch-Darwinian’ and aggressively anti-religious, not to say anti-theistic, books. Johnson saw sociobiology in particular and scientific m... to combat the institutionalized threat of official science. “On the one hand, modernists say that science is impartial fact-finding, the objective and unprejudiced weighing of evidence,” writes Johnson. “Science in that sense relies on careful observations, calculations, and above all repeatable experiments. That kind of objective science is what makes technology possible, and where it can be employed... materialism, or as he put it “to split the foundations of naturalism” by “the wedge of truth” (title of one of his books) – Christian truth, that is. He became referred to as ‘Phillip “the Wedge” Johnson’. He and his like-minded crusaders saw themselves as defenders of Western civilization, “the normative legacy of Judeo-Christian ethics”. From a pamphlet, known as “the Wedge document” we quote the ...
... as I heard upstairs, what can one expect but a rain-storm?" I don't know whether Johnson would have borne so patiently with his wife. Perhaps he would have — but only with her and never with anybody else. He chose his wife with great care. She was a somewhat tipsy widow of nearly 50 — 20 years older than Johnson himself! She could easily have called him with perfect appropriateness: "John-son."... "If Zeus were to speak in the language of mortals, he would do so in the Greek of Plato." To find another colossal talker we have to jump over nearly two thousand years and come to Dr. Samuel Johnson of eighteenth-century England. He laid down the law in matters of literature and in all other matters brought up by his circle of eminent friends — Reynolds the painter, Burke the politician-orator... the exception of Goldsmith who, Garrick reported, Wrote like an Angel and talked like poor Poll. ("Poll" is the conventional proper name of the parrot — "Pretty Polly", as you surely know.) Johnson was a master of common-sense uncommonly expressed and of argument that was unanswer-able. He was a fighter who never let go: it was said of him that if he missed you with the fire of his pistol he ...
... The Thinking Corner Uttering the Unutterable Speaking of a "metaphysical" poet, Dr. Johnson laid down the law to goggling and gaping Boswell: "If Mr. X has experienced the Unutterable, Mr. X will be well advised not to try and utter it." The advice, I am afraid, is not the Doctor's wit or sanity at its best. It is a superficially brilliant play on words, taking... Page 58 or writer is. Words thus can intensely convey the sense of what is entirely beyond the capacity of words or else is opposed to their nature! That is the paradox forgotten by Dr. Johnson. Perhaps the finest brief example of language employing all its resources to impart the Unutterable in a literal interpretation is a three-line snatch from a passage Sri Aurobindo once sent me... does not lack a certain sibilance but its chief contribution is, first, through the term "alone" with its sound that goes ringing in us with a full roundedness because of its long "o" Dr. Johnson, of course, has no inkling of the Aurobindo-nian art with its rare characteristics: immense supra-intellectual clarity and penetrating fathomless reverberation. But Page 60 it would ...
... poets of the time, Johnson & Goldsmith mark the last development of the Augustan style, while Collins, Blake, Cowper, Burns, Chatterton each embody in their poetry the beginnings of one or more tendencies which afterwards found their full expression in the nineteenth century. Gray alone seems to include in himself along with many characteristics of the conservative school of Johnson & Goldsmith all the... that of eighteenth-century poetry is one of commonsense and reason, that is to say intellectual and rational. Pope and Johnson are the two chief critics of the school. Pope expressly lays it down in his Essay on Criticism that sense and wit are the bases of all true poetry and Johnson is continually appealing to them as criterions, especially in his life of Gray, where he objects to what he considers ...
... have become victims of disease or accident.... Two Americans athletes, decathlete Rafer Johnson and shot putter Bill Neider, overcame serious injuries to win their respective events at Rome. Twelve years before the Rome Olympics, during the same week in which Bob Mathias won the Olympic decathlon in London, Johnson was praying in a Kingsburg hospital that his left leg would not have to be amputated... by the tissues. Twenty three stitches were needed to put back the spilling muscles and tissues. The doctors saved the 12-year-old's leg but it never healed fully. Throughout his athletic career Johnson had difficulty wearing spikes; his discomfort was always clearly visible. But that was the smallest hurdle in a long effort which culminated in that dramatic decathlon victory; he was the greatest ...
... once made by Dr. Johnson. The story is as follows. "A slender butcher well known for his pretension to taste which he did not possess took up a volume of poems in a bookseller's shop and reading out the line 'Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free', turned to Dr. Johnson, who was standing by, and said, 'What think you of that, sir?' 'Rank nonsense!' bluntly replied Johnson; 'it is an assertion ...
... 297. 131. See Johnson, The Imprisoned Splendour,p. 17 4. 132. God,pp.22,85. 133. Mackenzie, Cosmic Problems, p. 113. 134. God, p. 44. 135. See Mackenzie, Cosmic Problems, p. 113. 136. See Stace, Time and Eternity, p. 75. 137. Space, Time and Deity, Vol. II, p. 345. 138. Quoted in Johnson, The Imprisoned Splendour... all his fables, too. A song of truth that deepens, not destroys the ethereal realm of wonder. ( The Book of Earth, pp. 16-7). 36. Raynor C. Johnson, The Imprisoned Splendour, p. 401. 37. The Pursuit of Death, p. 264. See also Montague, The Ways of Knowing, p. 58: "If the cosmos...were possessed of a psychic concomitant ...
... , the second of the only two poems published early, was sent at first to Lionel Johnson, a poet and littérateur of some reputation who was the Reader of a big firm. He acknowledged some poetic merit, but said that it was a repetition of Matthew Arnold and so had no sufficient reason for existence. But Lionel Johnson, I was told, like the Vedantic sage who sees Brahman in all things, saw Arnold everywhere ...
... something directed not at one's "rational" mind but at one's temperament and taste and instinct—factors which if one is not specifically trained to be catholic are likely to trip up even critics like Johnson, Coleridge, Arnold and Eliot. May I hope that C.R.M., whose writings are often acute as well as charming will give my book a closer reading and, instead of being in a hurry to pass judgment, open himself... But surely there must be something in the reader to serve as a point d'appui for the poet's effort at communication? Else we shall be obliged to reject Lycidas as no poetry because Dr. Johnson found it crude and unmelodious, Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads as sheer metricised prose because Jeffreys remarked, "This will never do", Shelley's work as valueless because Matthew Arnold shook his ...
... the second of the only two poems published early, was sent at first to Lionel Johnson, a poet and litterateur of some reputation who was the Reader of a big firm. He acknowledged some poetic merit, but said that it was a repetition of Matthew Arnold and so had no sufficient reason for existence. But Lionel Johnson, I was told, like the Vedantic sage who sees Brahman in all things, saw Arnold ...
... began to render political support to South Vietnam in place of France. In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy expanded the support into the military area. In early August 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson decided to bomb a strategic military point of North Vietnam immediately after the Maddox, a destroyer of the 7th U.S. Fleet, was attacked twice by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. It marked the commencement... which started to intervene in Vietnamese affairs from 1961, spent US$ 141 billion over 14 years and sustained a loss of 56,000 soldiers. Moreover, President Lyndon Page 125 Johnson gave up his second bid for presidency amid escalating armed conflicts and fierce anti-war demonstrations. During the war, 4,687 South Korean troops were killed in action. The accord for termination ...
... you also exchange views and ideas?" "Yes, we do." "Indeed! I seem to hear mostly about cricket and football and basketball!" "No, it is not quite so. We also talk about Gandhi and Nehru, Johnson and Goldsmith. We are also curious about atom bombs. We discuss so many world-events, our physics and chemistry lessons - the computer which is the latest craze. It has invaded all the fields of life... wait for the whole family to go to bed before I could take up my books. In any case, I had always been a night-bird. In England I used to go to bed late and wake up late too, though not as late as Johnson who never left his bed before 10 in the morning! I'm afraid I rarely followed the adage that I'm sure you have all been taught - 'Early to bed, early to rise....' " Pooja excitedly completed it ...
... 216,202,260,394, 507 Jadhav, Madhavrao, 47, 216 Jauhar, Surendranath, 750, 760,764 Jayaswal, K. P., 508 Jinnah,M.A.,529,702,710 Joan of Arc 55,191 Johnson, Lionel, 99 Jones, Sir William, 13 Joyce, James, 535 Julius Caesar, 140 Kabir, 9, 497 Kalidasa. 10,50, 69ff, 90H, 337, 695 Kama, 169, 172 ... 9,280,497 Twelfth Night, 133 Tyberg, Judith (Jyotipriya), 751 Ulupy (Uloupie), 106 Upadhyaya, Brahmabandhab, 190,245,305, 326,728 Urvasie, 68,99ff; Lionel Johnson on, 99; Sri Aurobindo's integral approach, 99; 'dawn' in, 100; 'mortal mightier than the God's, 102; comparison with the Chitrangada story, 106; as epyllion, 106 Uttarapara Speech, 315,317 ...
... of something directed not at one's "rational" mind but at one's temperament and taste and instinct-factors which if not specifically trained to be catholic are likely to trip up even critics like Johnson, Coleridge, Arnold and Eliot. May I hope that C.R.M. whose writings are often acute as well as charming will give my book a closer reading and, instead of being in a hurry to pass judgment, open himself... But surely there must be something in the reader to serve as a point d'appui for the poet 's effort at communication. Else we shall be obliged to reject Lycidas as no poetry because Dr. Johnson found it crude and unmelodious, Wordsworth 's Lyrical Ballads as sheer prose because Jeffreys remarked, "This will never do". Shelley's work as valueless because Matthew Arnold shook his head about ...
... India, on his return after a long sojourn in England. When the poem was offered to an English publisher, it was referred to Lionel Johnson who "acknowledged some poetic merit but said that it was a repetition of Matthew Arnold"; and Sri Aurobindo adds: "But Lionel Johnson, I was told like the Vedantic sage who sees Brahman in all things, saw Arnold everywhere". 1 In the nineties of the last century ...
... realisation of the true Shakespeare & our enjoyment of his poetry will thus be cruelly and uselessly marred. This is the essential defect which vitiates the theory of the man and his milieu. The man in Dr Johnson expressed himself in his conversation and therefore his own works are far less important to us than Boswell's record of his daily talk; the man in Byron expresses himself in his letters as well as ...
... immediately called both ambassadors for a conference. [Nehru will die four months later, on 27 May.] At the time, I worked a good deal and things were moving.... Now, it seems that the new president [Johnson] is, for the time being, continuing what the other did: he won't upset the apple cart.... We'll see. If it succeeds, it will give some concrete expression to the effort of transformation without ...
... expects a precise logical order in thoughts and language and pecks at all that departs from a matter-of-fact or a strict and rational ideative coherence or a sober and restrained classical taste. Johnson himself is plainly out of his element when he deals crudely with one of Gray's delicate trifles and tramples and flounders about in the poet's basin of goldfish breaking it with his heavy and vicious ...
... (heaven help us!) Sylvia Plath, and I heard from my friend Santosh Pal of another whose marriage had broken up after her return from Cambridge (England) where she had been working on a thesis on Dr. Johnson! So, if our Academy comes to pass-only perhaps 50 full time students each year - we would want always to have an Indian philosopher on our staff. But so far this is not a certainty but a scheme we're ...
... dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flowers beneath the night-dew sweat: Even Lust and Envy sleep; yet Love denies Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. A contemporary of Johnson, Rhymer, singled out this passage as a touchstone of poetic taste. But Wordsworth calls it "vague, bom - bastic and senseless." I for one find it positively comic in parts and, on the whole, a poor ...
... the prison of the formal metrical mould, rhetorical style, limited subject-matter, absence of imagination and vision imposed by the high pontiffs of the pseudo-classical cult [Dryden and Pope and Johnson] . ... Some pale effort is made to recover something of the Shakespearian wealth of language or of the softer, more pregnant colour of the pre-Restoration diction and to modify it to suit the inte ...
... into sublimity and vice-versa. "Can a talk ofmine be at all designated a discourse? Discourse implies acting the philosopher. In that respectI seem to resemble Dr. Jonathan whom Samuel Johnson once asked: 'Have you tried being a philosopher?' Dr. Jonathan replied: 'Sir, I have tried several times, but always cheerfulness keeps breaking in.' " "To go back to the old days when ...
... In the Press. - Editors Page 360 arguments and counter-arguments that we read in the works that it is dangerous to match wits with K.D. Sethna. Boswell’s remark (about Dr Johnson may be true of him if modified a little to show a multiple resource. He can use his pistol not only to fire but also to knock you down with the butt-end of it. Page 361 ...
... objective facts but he does not stay locked up in them. On the other hand, he uses them as symbols to drive home to our souls his sense of that reality. Many great critics including Johnson, Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis at times committed ridiculous blunders in their estimates of poets and poems just because they failed to realise that there can be an endless ...
... invention of human nature' that Harold Bloom has recently celebrated in Shakespeare in his recent book of that title. This point of Sri Aurobindo, emphasised by Sethna, would remind usthat the same Dr. Johnson who in his Preface to Shakespeare praised the playwright's enduring supremacy as consisting in his 'just representation of general nature' declared in his poem (which is a good critical statement ...
... 549 Evan Connell: Deus lo volt – A Chronicle of the Crusades, p. 12. 550 Léon Poliakov, op. cit., pp. 243, 245. 551 Id., pp. 252, 260. 552 Id., pp. 283-84. 553 Id., p. 303. 554 Paul Johnson: A History of the Jews, p. 242. 555 Dietrich Bronder: Bevor Hitler kam, p. 352. 556 John Weiss: Ideology of Death, p. 23. 557 Dietrich Bronder, op., cit., p. 352. 558 Michael Ley: ...
... III, “Les thèses de Fritz Fischer”. Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasan: Sri Aurobindo Jäckel, Eberhard: Hitlers Weltanschauung Joachimsthaler, Anton: Hitlers Weg begann in München 1913-1923 Johnson, Paul: A History of the Jews Junge, Traudl: Bis zur letzten Stunde Kaufmann, Walter: Nietzsche – Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist Kempowski, Walter: Haben Sie Hitler gesehen? ...
... as "masterly". But Durrell is far indeed from writing a plain hand. Richard Mayne, 4 in the Sunday Times , declares: "His prose beguiles us with marvels of virtuosity." And even Pamela Hansford Johnson, 5 who finds the book wanting in a centre, criticises it by saying that one reads it for just "the glittering, elaborate, lyric beauty of the style". Yes, even today richness of expression ...
... pick up the thread of discourse. But, first, can a talk of mine be at all designated a discourse? Discourse implies acting the philosopher. In that respect I seem to resemble Dr. Jonathan whom Samuel Johnson once asked: "Have you tried being a philosopher?" Dr. Jonathan replied: "Sir, I have tried several times, but always cheerfulness keeps breaking in." (laughter) Well, the mention of ...
... Defence: "The general credibility of this and other utterances about himself cannot be questioned." 37 The fact of overwhelming night-inspiration during the waking condition had been remarked by Johnson who, on the authority of Richardson's Life, relates that Milton "would sometimes lie awake whole nights... and on a sudden his poetical faculty would rush upon him with an impetus, and his daughter ...
... who hear it. Unfortunately, just as there are colour-blind people, so are there listeners and readers who prove themselves incapable of appreciating the deeper nuances of humour. This is what Samuel Johnson said in his familiar lexicographical way: "Wit like every other power has its boundaries. Its success depends on the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and just as some bodies, indissoluble ...
... That is the test. Only T. S. Elliot will live – but that as a minor poet only. The moderners all have got diction but it has no value without Rhythm. They have no Rhythm." No one now reads Ben Johnson because people are no longer interested in him. Page 312 ...
... cropper" with the sky-arches of Shelley's iridescent imagination. Francis Jeffrey, before them, had uttered his notorious verdict on the lyricism of Wordsworth and Coleridge: "This will never do!" Johnson, still earlier, had found Milton's Lycidas commonplace if not crude. When such minds could show blindspots, it is hardly surprising that an Indian reviewer of moderate talent should miss the mark ...
... could be allied with reticence and taciturnity — a private affair, pure and holy, not open to discussion, nor amenable to public exhibition. But no one law is valid for all. Boswell loved Johnson "on this side idolatry"; yet he was, in a manner of speaking, a "spy' — taking notes, making calculations, conducting Sherlock- Holmesian enquiries, prodding his hero at well-regulated intervals and ...
... nationalism, namely racism, in this case mainly manifesting as anti-Semitism. “It is true that, right at the beginning, the Jews welcomed the Reformation, because it divided their enemies”, writes Paul Johnson. “It is true also that Luther, in particular, turned to the Jews for support of his new construing of the Bible and his rejection of papal claims. In his 1523 pamphlet, On the Fact that Christ was ...
... But surely there must be something in the reader to serve as a point d'appui for the poet's effort at communication? Else we shall be obliged to reject Lycidas as no poetry because Dr. Johnson found it crude and unmelodious, Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads as sheer metricised prose because Jeffreys remarked, "This will never do", Shelley's work as valueless because Matthew Arnold shook ...
... 11, 38, 49, 62 Innar, 89 Iron, 37-8, 104, 105 Jackson, 84 Jairazbhoy, R. A., 33fn., 89fn. Jamdat Nasr period, times, 58, 73 Jaxartes, 13, 77 Johnson, Samuel, 91 Joshi, J.P., 9, 37, 49fn. Kabul, 14 Kalash Kafirs, 86-7 Kalibangan, 46, 49, 63-4, 100 Karpāsa in Prehistoric India: A Chronological and Cultural ...
... The language of Bernard Shaw is evidently not that of Byron, and Byron's language differs distinctly 1. "The Aryan Problem", The Vedic Age, Page 90 from that of Samuel Johnson. The rate of change revealed by a comparison of the idioms emanating from the pens of these three writers does suggest an approximate date for Shakespeare's English, and the latter, in its turn, an ...
... and domestic questions, all that interested or engaged the poet outside his immediate theme and filled his mind and life is poured out. We may characterise these outpourings as superfluities, as Johnson did the autobiographical introductions; but, as he was careful to add, "superfluities so beautiful, who would take away?" Everywhere in the epic we meet with the poet's individual presence and we ...
... Giraffe , Pan Books, 1982 Horgan, John: Rational Mysticism , Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003 — The End of Science , Broadway Books, 1997 — The Undiscovered Mind , The Free Press, 1999 Johnson, Phillip E.: The Wedge of Truth , InterVarsity Press, 2000 King, Francis, and others: The Rebirth of Magic , Corgi Books, 1982 Koestler, Arthur: The Ghost in the Machine , Arkana, 1989 ...
... on his own level may survive—only his thinking is more of a personal type and not classic and typical of a fundamental current of the human intellect like Voltaire. His personality may help him, as Johnson was helped by his personality to live. Shaw is not a dramatist; I don't think he ever wrote a drama; Candida is perhaps the nearest he came to one. He is a first-class play-writer,—a brilliant ...
... still childlike intelligence a sense of conclusive and luminous simplicity. But the average mind enamoured of a straight and plain thinking, for which, for a famous instance, that great doctor Johnson thought with the royal force dear to all strong men when he destroyed Berkeley's whole philosophy by simply kicking a stone and saying "There I prove the reality of matter," is not alone affected by ...
... to see Nehru: Nehru immediately called both ambassadors for Page 28 a conference. 4 At the time, I worked a good deal and things were moving.... Now, it seems that the new president [Johnson] is, for the time being, continuing what the other did: he won't upset the apple cart.... We'll see. If it succeeds, it will give some concrete expression to the effort of transformation without ...
... : can a book which he dates to the close of the third century - that is, about 300 years earlier - be ranked as a recent work? Can anybody in the twentieth century speak legitimately of Dryden and Johnson and Pope as recent writers? On the strength of Dandin's alleged word, more logical is J. Jolly's attempt to prove the contemporaneity of the Daśakumāracharita and the Arthaśāstra. But Kangle 3 ...
... complaint! War is war! His hair also caused some trouble, for it was in a terribly tangled "intrinsicate" mess due to its prolonged fixed position — a network as complicated as its definition by Dr. Johnson. How to untangle it? I do not know what made us bold enough to tackle that feminine problem instead of placing it in the Mother's proper care. We had no idea then that she would be only too glad to ...
... figures still adorned that age – stalwarts that either stuck to the prevailing norm and gave it a kind of stagnant nobility or already leaned towards the new light that was dawning once more. Pope and Johnson, Montes-quieu and Voltaire are its high-lights. The nineteenth century brought in another crest wave with a special gift to mankind; apparently it was a reaction to the rigid classicism and dry r ...
... 244 JANAKA,396 Japan, 70, 160,209 Jayachand,9O Jeanne d'Arc, 90 Jeans, Sir James, 317-18, 332-3 -Physics & Philosophy, 317n Jehovah, 220 Johnson, Samuel, 212 Junkerism, 88, 89 Juno, 220 KABALA, 151, 214 Kahler, Erich, 358-9 -Man the Measure, 358 Kali, 327 Kalidasa, 8, 55, 136, 197 ...
... tendency to word-torturing, puns often fall into disrepute. We recall in this connection the highly witty assertion of Prof. Stephen Leacock: " 'He who would make a pun would pick a pocket', Dr. Johnson is said to have said but didn't say, or didn't say first." 52 But puns need not be as bad as that. Handled by a veritable artist of humour a pun may exhibit different kinds of saving graces. ...
... effort to end the political deadlock. Efforts were being made by some leaders while Cripps was still in India to reach a compromise formula. Rajaji took the lead in this drive. Rajaji, Cripps and Col. Johnson, Roosevelt's personal envoy, worked out a formula which was agreed to by the Congress Working Committee. It consisted of a demarcation of the functions and authority of the Defence Member and of the ...
... figures still adorned that age— stalwarts that either stuck to the prevailing norm and gave it a kind of stagnant nobility or already leaned towards the new light that was dawning once more. Pope and Johnson, Montesquieu and Voltaire are its high-lights. The nineteenth century brought in another crest wave with a special gift to mankind; apparently it was a reaction to the rigid classicism and dry rationalism ...
... from the German by Ralph Manheim (Roudedge, London, 1959). James, William, The Varieties of Religious Experience (Longmans, London, 37 th Impression, 1929). Johnson, Raynor C. The Imprisoned Splendour (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1954). Jones, Phyllis M. (Ed.) English Critical Essays, XX Century (Oxford University Press, London, 1933). ...
... (laughter) However, one has to make the best of one's situation, and so even in the pre-Ashram days I looked out for some word of wisdom to throw light on my rather deplorable state. I followed Dr. Johnson's advice: Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind from China to Peru. Page 3 And luckily at the very beginning of my survey — in China itself ...
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