 | James Boswell - 1889 - 454 Seiten
...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...that for several years he lived much with Charles Townshend,2 and that he ventured to tell him 1 Sterne, as may be supposed, was no great favourite with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 Seiten
...reach of his claws." GOLDSMITH. " His claws can do you noharm, when you have the shield of truth." It having been observed that there was little hospitality...And a very dull fellow." JOHNSON. " Why, no, Sir." 1 Martinelli told us, that for several years he lived much with Charles Townshend,2 and that he ventured... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 Seiten
...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...has had engagements for three months." GOLDSMITH. " Aud a very dull fellow." JOHNSON. " Why, no, Sir." ' Martinelli told us, that for several years he... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1889 - 636 Seiten
...fortnight before. " Any man who has a name," said Johnson in a conversation recorded by Boswell, " or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally...been told, has had engagements for three months." " And a very dull fellow, too," replied Goldsmith, with perhaps a touch of jealousy. "Why, no, sir,"... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 Seiten
...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S Letters : June 22d, 1760. " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the Rabelais's easy chair, only fresh stuffed and more elegant than when in the possession of the cynical... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 Seiten
...can do you no harm, when you have the shield of truth." It having been observed that there was Utile "@ 1890 G. Townshcnd, and that he ventured to tell him he was a bad joker. JOHNSON : "Why, Sir, thus much I can... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 Seiten
...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...engagements for three months.' Goldsmith: ' And a very dnll fellow.' Johnson: 'Why, no, sit' " — Bos WELL'S Life of Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 474 Seiten
...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S Letters : June 22nrf, 1760. " It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London — Johnson = 'Kay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited... | |
 | William Allingham - 1893 - 396 Seiten
...dull in a new way, and that made many people call him great." ' 4 Nor did Sterne fare much better. ' It having been observed that there was little hospitality...very generally invited in London. The man Sterne, I am told, has had engagements for three months." GOLDSMITH : "And a very dull fellow." JOHNSON: "Why,... | |
 | William Allingham - 1893 - 396 Seiten
...dull in a new way, and that made many people call him great." ' 4 Nor did Sterne fare much better. ' It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London — JOHNSON : " Nay, six, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London.... | |
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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... 
