 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 480 páginas
...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GBAT'S Letters : June 22nd, 1760. "It having been observed that there was little hospitality...very generally invited in London. The man, Sterne, I havo been told, has had engagements for three months.' Goldsmith : ' And a very dull fellow.' Johnson... | |
 | Alfred Webb - 1878 - 616 páginas
...ran to seven volumes, had a large sale, due to Sterne's reputation as the author of Tristram Shandy. "Any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited," observed Dr. Johnson ; " the man Sterne, I have been told, has Tiad engagements for three months. .... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 páginas
...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S f^etlera: Jum 22nrf, 17(K). " 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 - 1881 - 732 páginas
...laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S Letters, June 22. 1760. " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...had engagements for three months.' GOLDSMITH : ' And i very dull fellow.' JOHNSON : ' Why, no, sir.' " — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's]... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 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...Johnson : ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who lias the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man, Sterne, I have been... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1882 - 194 páginas
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 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 450 páginas
...this hospitality as a tribute ; while his contemporaries saw the festivity in a very different light. "Any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing," said Johnson, " will be very generally invited in London. The man Sterne, I am told, has had engagements... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 468 páginas
...hospitality as a tribute ; while his contemporaries saw the festivity in a very different light. " Any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing," said Johnson, "will be very generally invited in London. The man Sterne, I am told, has had enerae;ements... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 500 páginas
...them, and humour sometimes hit and sometimes missed.' Boswell tells us, in his Life of Johnson, that it having been observed that there was little hospitality in London, Johnson said : 'Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be generally invited... | |
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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... 
