 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1878 - 188 Seiten
...to that effect. Sir Joshua carried this paper to Johnson, who nevertheless sturdily protested that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. In November JS Copley and W. Parry were elected Associates of the Royal Academy. Sir Joshua's Seventh... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 Seiten
...to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good-humor, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen that he would .alter the epitaph in any manner they...Abbey with an English inscription. "I consider this Sound-robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in a certain degree,... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1879 - 196 Seiten
...to that effect. Sir Joshua carried this paper to Johnson, who nevertheless sturdily protested that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. In November JS Copley and W. Parry were elected Associates of the Royal Academy. Sir Joshua's Seventh... | |
 | 1879 - 348 Seiten
...to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good-humor, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen that he would alter the epitaph in any manner they pleased as to the sense'of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 634 Seiten
...good humour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the r. 'gentlemen that he would alter the epitaph in any 4 manner they pleased, as to the sense of it, but he...never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster 1 Boswell's JoJintmi, ii. 225. An printed privately at the Chiswick Press, interesting application... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 Seiten
...though in some instances he appears to have trusted too much to Buffbn, who, with all his theoretical that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they...disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inseription. " I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 Seiten
...Johnson, who received the document with great good humour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen " that he would alter the epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would not consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." Fancy a number... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 Seiten
...make any minor alterations, but stoutly resisted the proposal of having it in English ; and added that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. It was his opinion that the language of the country of which a learned man was a native was not the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 506 Seiten
...make any minor alterations, but stoutly resisted the proposal of having it in English ; and added that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. It was his opinion that the language of the country of which a learned man was a native was not the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 436 Seiten
...Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour,2 and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but fie would never consent to disgrace the -walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription. "I... | |
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Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour245, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace... 
