 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 584 pages
...Boswell's Johnson, is a further proof of this. Boswell reports (Napier's 8vo. ed., vol. ii., p. 68), " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...And a very dull fellow.' JOHNSON. ' Why, no, Sir.'" See also Letter LXXV.— ED. to the meanest capacities, and address those passions which all have,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 584 pages
...Boswell's Johnson, is a further proof of this. Boswell reports (Napier's 8vo. ed., vol. ii., p. 68), " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...And a very dull fellow.' JOHNSON. ' Why, no, Sir.'" See also Letter LXXV.— ED. to the meanest capacities, and address those passions which all have,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 492 pages
...reach of his claws." GOLDSMITH. '' His claws can do you no harm, when you have the shield of truth." It having been observed that there was little hospitality...GOLDSMITH. " And a very dull fellow." JOHNSON. "Why, no, Sir."1 Martinelli told us, that for several years he lived much with Charles Townshend,1 and that he... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1885 - 572 pages
...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — Gray's Letters3°), June 22nd, 1760. "It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London — Johnson: 'Nay, Sir31), any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S Letters: June 22nd, 17(H). " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three month*.' Goldsmith : ' And a very dull fellow.' Johnson: ' Why, no, sir.' " — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson.... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...invited a fortnight before. "Any man who has a name," said Johnson in a conversation recorded by Boswell, "or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man Sferric, I have been told, has had engagements for three months." " And a very dull fellow, too," replied... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 512 pages
...reach of his claws.' GOLDSMITH. ' His claws can do you no harm, when you have the shield of truth.' It having been observed that there was little hospitality...' And a very dull fellow.' JOHNSON. ' Why, no, Sir V Martinelli told us, that for several years he lived much with Charles Townshend, and that he ventured... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 522 pages
...reach of his claws.' GOLDSMITH. ' His claws can do you no harm, when you have the shield of truth.' It having been observed that there was little hospitality...have been told, has had engagements for three months V GOLDSMITH. ' And a very dull fellow.' JOHNSON. ' Why, no, Sir 2.' Martinelli told us, that for several... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...reach of his claws." GOLDSMITH. " His claws can do you no harm, when you have the shield of truth." It having been observed that there was little hospitality...Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three months."1 GOLDSMITH. " And a very dull fellow." JOHNSON. " Why no, Sir." Martinelli told us, that for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...reach of his claws." GOLDSMITH. " His claws can do you noharm, when you have the shield of truth." It having been observed that there was little hospitality...And a very dull fellow." JOHNSON. " Why, no, Sir." 1 Martinelli told us, that for several years he lived much with Charles Townshend,2 and that he ventured... | |
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It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London ; JOHNSON. " Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man, Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three... 
