 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pàgines
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyrick he concluded by saying, ' Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir,...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse'.' 1 Horace. Odes, \. 2. * See ante, ii. 490. 1 Perhaps the poverty of their host led to this talk. Sir... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pàgines
...JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Speaking of this great artist, he gave the following ' eulogium on him as a man : " Reynolds, Sir, is the most invulnerable man I know...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." > SUICIDE. *' There is no situation a man can possibly be in tnat he has a right to put himself to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pàgines
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose pnnegyrick he concluded by saying, " Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I kaow; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." Dr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pàgines
...invulnerable man know; the man with whom if you should [uarrel, you would find the most difficulty low oduce, without an extension of its faculties by immediate inspiration; yet Mrs. Lucy Porter, ,han Mount Edgecumbe, reckoned the first 'n England; because, at Mount Edgecumbe, .he sea is bounded... | |
 | 1848 - 572 pàgines
...round,' exclaimed Johnson, with honest envy. ' In illness and in pain, he is still the same. Sir, he is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom, if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse.' Nor was this praise obtained by preference of any, but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pàgines
...talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyric he concluded by saying, " Sir Joshua Keynolds, Sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse." Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1848 - 576 pàgines
...round,' exclaimed Johnson, with honest envy. ' In illness and in pain, he is still the same. Sir, he is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom, if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse.' Nor was this praise obtained by preference of any, but... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1848 - 578 pàgines
...round,' exclaimed Johnson, with honest envy. ' In illness and in pain, he is still the same. Sir, he is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom, if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse.' Nor was this praise obtained by preference of any, but... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pàgines
...round,' exclaimed Johnson, with honest envy. ' In illness and in pain, he is still the ' same. Sir, he is the most invulnerable man I know ; the 'man with whom, if you should quarrel, you will find 17ii7 TO 1774.] 525 ' the most difficulty how to abuse.' Nor was this praise obtained by... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pàgines
...round,' exclaimed Johnson, with honest envy. ' In illness and in pain, he is still the ' same. Sir, he is the most invulnerable man I know ; the ' man with whom, if you should quarrel, you will find ' the most difficulty how to abuse.' Nor was this praise obtained by preference of any, but... | |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse. 
