 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 Seiten
...you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." Vol. Ill, p. 85. 1773 — JEt. 64 Goldsmith being mentioned; — Johnson: "It is amazing...He seldom comes where he is not more ignorant than anyone else." Sir Joshua Reynolds: "Yet there is no man whose company is more liked." Johnson: "To... | |
 | Arthur St. John Adcock - 1912 - 412 Seiten
...contests, even when he entered the lists with Johnson himself." And once, when Johnson observed, " It is amazing how little Goldsmith knows ; he seldom...where he is not more ignorant than any one else," Reynolds put in quietly, " Yet there is no man whose company is more liked " ; and the Doctor promptly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 Seiten
...the Literary Club, whom he had obligingly invited to meet me, as I was this evening to be balloted for as candidate for admission into that distinguished society. Johnson had done me the honor to propose me, and Beanclerk was very zealous for me. Goldsmith being mentioned; JOHNSON. "It... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 Seiten
...the LITERARY CLUB, whom he had obligingly invited to meet me, as I was this evening to be balloted for as candidate for admission into that distinguished...propose me, and Beauclerk was very zealous for me — " " The gentlemen went away to their club, and I was left at Beauclerk's till the fate of my election... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 Seiten
...THE LITEKARY CLUB, whom he had obligingly invited to meet me, as I was this evening to be balloted for as candidate for admission into that distinguished...propose me, and Beauclerk was very zealous for me. Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 Seiten
...the LITERARY CLUB, whom he had obligingly invited to meet me, as I was this evening to be balloted for as candidate for admission into that distinguished...is not more ignorant than any one else.' SIR JOSHUA REYNOL0S. 'Yet there is no man whose company is more liked.' JOHNSON. 'To be sure, Sir. When people... | |
 | Miss Angel - 1875 - 796 Seiten
...dined at Mr. Beanclerk's with several members of that distinguished society. "Johnson," he writes, "had done me the honour to propose me, and Beauclerk was very zealous for me." He goes on to add, " The gentlemen went away to their club, andl was left at Beauclerk's till the fate... | |
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Yet there is no man whose company is more liked.' JOHNSON. 'To be sure, Sir. When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer, their inferiour while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them. 
