 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pàgines
...an after period of his life, the opinion of Johnfon himfelf. He faid to Sir Jofhua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will foon find himfelf left alone. A man, Sir, fhould keep his friendfhip in cmftant repair" The celebrated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pàgines
...that he is nothing of any thing." At a late period of his life he faid to Sir Jolhua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will foon find himfelf left alone. A man, Sir, fhould keep his friendfhip in conjlant repair." During a... | |
 | John Feltham - 1799 - 146 pàgines
...furniture; and in Europe, a spoilt child. LXXIV. Dr. JOHNSON said to Sir J. REYNOLDS, that if a man docs not make new 'acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. ( ^ . . LXXV. HUME said to Bishop... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pàgines
...that he is nothing of any thing." At a late period of his life he said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.'' During a visit at Oxford, the following conversation passed between the Doctor and Mr. Boswell on the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pàgines
...subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair" This light sally, we may suppose, made no great im- 46. pression on our Lexicographer; for we find... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pàgines
...subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jcu iГ Esprit upon the following passage in hie Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pàgines
...that he is nothing of any thing." At a late period of his life he said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...should -keep his friendship in constant repair.''' During a visit at Oxford, the following conversation passed between the Doctor and Mr. Boswell on the... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 382 pàgines
...part of Johnson, for having, in a degree, forced himself into an intimacy ; when Johnson said, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone: a man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." 1758. jETAT. 34. FROM a letter of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pàgines
...that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho, in. Ovid." * He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair." Amid the cokl obscurity of Johnson's early life, there... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pàgines
...subseqnent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson hiiuself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon und himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." The celebrated... | |
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He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, ' If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. 
