| 1822 - 590 páginas
...achievement, and was indefatigable; but, after all his pains and expectations, the patron only said, " Then, sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don Quixote, in the original :" and this was Rowe's remuneration. But Pope acquits Lord Oxford from meaning to be cruel. It was... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 páginas
...VII. 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, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 páginas
...VII. 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,...should thus insult a man of acknowledged merit ; or how Howe, who was so keen a Whig * that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 394 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 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 whigg, that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could ask preferment from... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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,...of acknowledged merit; or how Rowe, who was so keen awhigj that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could ask preferment from... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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...should thus insult a man of acknowledged merit ; or how Howe, who was so keen a whig8, that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 páginas
...however, is not distinct, at it migttt b* and when, some-time afterward, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation:...to be thought a favourer of literature, should thus tnsult a man of acknowledged merit; or how Rowe who was so keen a whig, that he did not willingly converse... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 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:...envy you the pleasure of reading ' Don Quixote' in i lie original." This story is sufficiently attested; but why Oxford, who desired to be thought a favourer... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...enjoined him to study Spanish; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he * Spence. had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation,...acknowledged merit ; or how Rowe, who was so keen a Whigt that he did not willingly converse with men of the opposite party, could ask preferment from... | |
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