 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 Seiten
...he knew each other better, their mutual regar iIlCr I [See Johnsoniana, p. 338.9.] “Johnson shall teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd...I'll learn to write, ¿Copy his clear familiar style, kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1889 - 364 Seiten
...terse ; * Sir Joshua Reynolds. t Alluding to Garrick, in a whim, reading Cumberland's odes backward. Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace ; From... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 478 Seiten
...more. If I have thoughts and can't express ‘em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress ‘em In terms select and terse; Jones, teach me modesty and Greek;...borrow'd grace, From him I'll learn to write Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself polite. Dr. Barnard, of... | |
 | Sir Claude Phillips - 1894 - 474 Seiten
...meditation. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em, In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek...Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrowed grace ; From him I'll learn to write ; Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness... | |
 | Louise Imogen Guiney - 1894 - 318 Seiten
...closes : " If I have thoughts and can't express 'era, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse; Jones teach me modesty and Greek;...Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk, to converse! ' ' * A boyish fashion of self-entertainment afterwards in great favor with Shelley. .8 7 In all deference... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 656 Seiten
...different friends, he says,— Johnson shall teach me how to place, In varied light, each borrow'd grace 5 From him I'll learn to write; Copy his clear familiar style, And by the roughness of his file, Grow, like himself, polite. Johnson, on this as on many occasions, repented... | |
 | John Rae - 1895 - 484 Seiten
...verses runs— If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In form select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek,...think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse. Smith's conversation seems, from all the accounts we have of it, to have been the conversation of a... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 Seiten
...1790.] " IF I have thoughts and can't express them, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress them In terms select and terse; Jones teach me modesty and Greek,...think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse." These well-known verses of Dr. Barnard (in reply to Dr. Johnson's taunt, " There is great room for... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 Seiten
...more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbons [sic] shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse; Jones teach me modesty and Greek'; Smith, how to think 3 ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse 4 . Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 532 Seiten
...more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbons [sic] shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse; Jones teach me modesty and Greek " ; Smith, how to think 3 ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse 4 . Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest... | |
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select and terse ; . - ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, : • Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk To converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place, In fairest light, each borrow'd grace, From him I'll learn to write; Copy his clear,... 
