| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 páginas
...Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish ; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation,...acknowledged merit ; or how Rowe, who was so keen a whig! that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite paj-ty, could ask preferment from Oxford... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 páginas
...voL. X. F enjoined him to study Spanish ; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation,...acknowledged merit ; or how Rowe, who was so keen a Whig * that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could ask preferment from Oxford,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 páginas
...Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish ; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, " Then, Sir, I en" vy you the pleasure of reading Don Quixote, in the *' original." This story is sufficiently attested... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 páginas
...Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish ; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation,...acknowledged merit; or how Rowe, who was so keen a Whig* that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could ask preferment from Oxford... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 páginas
...again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, " Then, VOL. X. F " Sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don Quixote...acknowledged merit ; or how Rowe, who was so keen a Whig that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could ask preferment from Oxford,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 426 páginas
...again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, " Then, VOL. x. F " Sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don Quixote...acknowledged merit ; or how Rowe, who was so keen a Whig that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could ask preferment from Oxford,... | |
| Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 páginas
...was he who advised Mr. Rowe to learn Spanish, and after all his pains and expectation, only said, " then, Sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don Quixote in the original." — " Was not that cruel ?" I do not believe it was meant so ; it was only his odd way. — The same.... | |
| Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 páginas
...was he who advised Mr. Rowe to learn Spanish, and after all his pains and expectation, only said, " then, Sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don Quixote in the original." — " Was not that cruel ?" I do not believe it was meant so ; it was only his odd way. — .The same.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 434 páginas
...Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish ; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation,...acknowledged merit; or how Rowe, who was so keen a Whig* that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could ask preferment from Oxford... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 428 páginas
...pleasure of reading Don Quixote in the original." This story is sufficiently attested ; but why Orfford, who desired to be thought a favourer of literature,...acknowledged merit; or how Rowe, who was so keen a Whig* that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could ask preferment from Oxford;... | |
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