 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pągines
...shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. ' Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber ' " (Boswell, p. 49). Page 69, 1. 5. [fate of Cassandra. Cassandra was daughter of Priam, King of Troy... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pągines
...shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber." * A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pągines
...shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " e shrivelled wig sticking on the top of his head,...and the sleeves of his shirt and the knees of his b 18 A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 394 pągines
...his shop with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. ' Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber.' " Johnson says of Osborne, in his " Life of Pope," that he was entirely destitute of shame, without... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 294 pągines
...shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. ' Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was injny own chamber.' " — Boswell. "There is nothing to tell, dearest lady, but that he was insolent... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pągines
...Boswell says: " The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. ' Sir, he was impertinent to me, and 1 beat him. But it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber.'" 10 6. Blefuscu, Mildendo. If Blefuscu and Mildendo look unfamiliar, £0 to Lilliput for them. (See... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 pągines
...Boswell says: "The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. 'Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I bsat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber.' " 10 6. Blefuscu, Mildendo. If Blef uscu and Mildendo look unfamiliar, go to Lilliput for them. (See... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pągines
...shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. ' of Earl Percy's having presented to his Majesty a...petition for mercy to Dodd, signed by twenty thousa A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have no... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1895 - 930 pągines
...with a fo — " JOHNSON (hastily) : " Sir, it was not so. The story is a ridiculous fable. The fellow was impertinent to me and I beat him, but it was not with a folio. I had too much respect for books." THE AUTHOR : " But you have spoken against booksellers."... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 616 pągines
...many a fellow, but the rest had the wit to hold their tongues." To Boswell he was even more laconic. " Sir, he was impertinent to me and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber." Years afterwards, when Macpherson proclaimed that he would chastise Johnson for his attacks on the... | |
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It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. "Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him.... 
