 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 576 pagine
...hospitality as a tribute ; while his contemporaries saw the festivity in a very different light. ' Any man who has a name, or who has the power of plensing,' says Johnson, • will be very generally invited in London. The mnn Sterne, I am told, bas... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pagine
...FEVRE. SIEP.NE [WE find the following curious and amusing passage in Boswell's ' Life of Johnson:' "It having been observed that there was little hospitality...And a very dull fellow.' Johnson. ' Why, no, Sir.' " Johnson had disliked ' the man Sterne,' and in truth his habits were not such as a rigid moralist... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pagine
...shield of truth." It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London : — JOHNBON. ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power...months." — GOLDSMITH. "And a very dull fellow." — JOHNSOS. " Why, no, sir." — Martinelli told us, that for several years he lived much with Charles... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pagine
...FEVRE. STEIWK [WE find the following curious and amusing passage in Boswell's ' Life of Johnson:' "II having been observed that there was little hospitality...power of pleasing, will be very generally invited iu London. The man Sterne, I have been told, has had engngements fur three months.' Goldsmith. ' And... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 580 pagine
...hospitality as a tribute ; while his contemporaries saw the festivity in a very different light. ' Any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing,' says Johnson, ' will be very generally invited in London. The man Sterne, I am told, has had engagements... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 pagine
...ragouts his stomach. He grew sickly and proud, an invalid in body and mind." In Boswell we read, " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...'And a very dull fellow.' Johnson, ' Why, no, Sir.' " No, Goldy, he was just the reverse of a dull fellow, heartless, shallow, vain as yourself, careless... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 pagine
...ragouts his stomach. He grew sickly and proud, an invalid in body and mind." In Boswell we read, " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...will be very generally invited in London. The man Sternei I have been told, has had engagements for three months. Goldsmith, ' And a very dull fellow.'... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 436 pagine
...ragouts his stomach. He grew sickly and proud, an invalid in body and mind." In Boswell we read, " It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London : Johnson, ' Kay, Sir, any mam who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pagine
...harm, when you have the shield of truth." It having been observed that there was little hospitality m CaoKta entran ' An eminent public character 3 being mentioned : JOHNSON. " I remember being present when he showed... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pagine
...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..."And a very dull fellow." Johnson: " Why, no, sir." ' — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. ' Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage, and they used... | |
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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... 
