 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pagine
...had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON. " We have a good Death : there is not much Life." I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire...authour." JOHNSON. " Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. * [This was unnecessary, for it had been done in the early part of the present century, by Jacob Tonson.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pagine
...Lift? of Rochester. Johnson. \Ve have a good JJeat/i : there it not much Life," I aiked whether Prior'e poems were to be printed entire : Johnson said, they were. I mentioned Lord HaiUs's censure of Prior, in hie Preface to a collection of "Sacred Poems," by variou4 handv, published... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pagine
...whether 1'rior'b poems were to be printed entire : Johnson said, they were. I mentioned Lord Hailcs's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of "Sacred Poems," by various hauch, published by him at Edinburgh a great many years ago, where lie mentions, " thos,e impure tales... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pagine
...had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON. " We have a good Death : there is not much Life." I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire...forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite tolewdness. If Lord Hailes thinks there is, he must be more combustible than other people." I instanced... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 pagine
...had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON. " We have a good Death ; there is not much Life" I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire...mentions, " those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobium of their ingenious authour." JOHNSON. " Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pagine
...had not given a good life of Rochester. JOHNSON. " We have a good death: there is not much life.'' I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire:...will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author." JOHNSON. " Sir, lord Hailes has forgot. e This was unnecessary, for it had been done in the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pagine
...there is not much Life." I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire : Johnson •aid, they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior,...will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author." JOHNSOX : " Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite to lewdness.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pagine
...had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON : " We have a good Death : there is not much Life." I ek." We talked of education at great schools; the advantages and disadvantages of which Johnson d Hailcs's censure of Prior, in his Preface to a collection of •' Sacred Poems," by various hands,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pagine
...had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON. " We have a good Death; there is not much Life." I asked "whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire:...authour." JOHNSON. " Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is i [This is one of those violent and absurd assertions into which Johnson was so often betrayed by his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 pagine
...had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON. " We have a good Death; there is not much Life" I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire...published by him at Edinburgh a great many 'years a'gB, where he mentions "those impure tales wriicniu\vift'1't(e the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious... | |
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I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire ; Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his preface to a collection of " Sacred Poems," by various hands, published by him at Edinburgh a great many years ago, where... 
