 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 páginas
...ragouts his stomach. He grew sickly and proud, an invalid in body and mind." In Boswell we read, " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...will be very generally invited in London. The man Sternei I have been told, has had engagements for three months. Goldsmith, ' And a very dull fellow.'... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 436 páginas
...ragouts his stomach. He grew sickly and proud, an invalid in body and mind." In Boswell we read, " It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London : Johnson, ' Kay, Sir, any mam who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 páginas
...harm, when you have the shield of truth." It having been observed that there was little hospitality m CaoKta entran ' An eminent public character 3 being mentioned : JOHNSON. " I remember being present when he showed... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 páginas
...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience.' — GRAY'S Letters, June 22nd, 1760. ' It having been observed that there was little hospitality..."And a very dull fellow." Johnson: " Why, no, sir." ' — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. ' Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage, and they used... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 páginas
...cynical old curate of Meudon,** <Tange" may be uncertain; but there can be no doubt which needed it most! "It having been observed that there was little hospitality...'And a very dull fellow.' Johnson: 'Why, no, Sir.'" — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. * "' Tristram Shandy' is still a greater object of admiration, the man... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 páginas
...more elegant than when in possession of the cynical old curate of Meudon,* — the more than rival of Johnson : ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who...And a very dull fellow.' Johnson: 'Why, no, sir.' "— BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage, and they used... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 páginas
...more elegant than when in possession of the cynical old curate of Meudon,* — the more than rival of Johnson : ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who...'And a very dull fellow.* Johnson: 'Why, no, sir.'" — BosWELL's Life of Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage, and they used to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 páginas
...more elegant than when in possession of the cynical old curate of Meudon,* — the more than rival of Johnson : ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who...'And a very dull fellow." Johnson: 'Why, no, sir.'" — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage, and they used to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 páginas
...more elegant than when in possession of the cynical old curate of Meudon,* — the more than rival of Johnson : 'Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who...months.' Goldsmith: 'And a very dull fellow. Johnson: ' \Vhy, no, sir.' " — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage,... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 páginas
...Thackeray. He preferred whining over a dead ass to relieving a living mother. — Byron. Johnson : " Any man who has a name or who has the power of pleasing...a very dull fellow." Johnson : "Why, no, sir."— " Life of J ohnson." No classic could endure Sterne's style. — Dr. Gregory. " Tristram Shandy" is... | |
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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... 
