| Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 Seiten
...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet?" Johnson at once felt himself roused; and answ.ar. ed, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." After having on some occasion made observations upon the similarity between ' Rasselas' and * Candide,'... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 Seiten
...do you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet f" Johnson at once felt himself roused; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of myself in company, he said to me, " Boswell, you... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 Seiten
...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet 1" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of myself in company, he said to me, " Boswell, you... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 536 Seiten
...do yoe reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ? Johnson at onc<? felt himself roused; and auswere d, Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of my telf in company, he said to me, Boswell, you often... | |
| John Selden - 1818 - 678 Seiten
...do you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet?" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." After having on some occasion made observations upon the similarity between '• Rasselas' and ' Candida,*... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 380 Seiten
...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ?" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point, of precedency between a louse and a flea." Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of myself in company, he said to me, " Boswell, you... | |
| Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 Seiten
...he), do you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet?" Johnson at once felt himself roused; and answered, "Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." : After having on some occasion made observations upon the similarity between " Rasselas " and " Candide,"... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 672 Seiten
...philosophy." (C. Mather.) Miscellanea Cvriosa 3 F. pi. 1726, &cc. Derrick's Letters from Leverpoole, See 2 H. 1767 It was on D., as compared with Smart, that Johnson...thought very pretty letters.' Descartes' Meditations, &c. by Molyneux (v. //o6J«)... 1GSS Deverell's Discoveries in Hieroglyphics, &C....G pi. 1813 Suppressed... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 444 Seiten
...do you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet?" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of ' Johnson being asked his opinion of this essay,... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 600 Seiten
...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ?" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." [It has been asserted .(European Mag. 1796, 1 [The accuracy of this ass.rtion seems doubtful ; at which... | |
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