 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 462 pàgines
...... I have beat many a fellow, but the rest had the wit to hold their tongues." To Boswell he said, " Sir, he was impertinent to me and I beat him. But it was not in his shop; it was in my own chamber." Irene and London. — Before he had migrated to London he had written the greater part of Irene, a... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 pàgines
...showed that it was a detail rather than his spirit which had been misrepresented. " Sir," said he, " he was impertinent to me and I beat him ; but it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber." Johnson's other employer was Cave, a better man than Osborne ; indeed, a man of many virtues, able... | |
 | 1895 - 908 pàgines
...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.' " May it not be the case that Mr. Irving's treasure is this great historic folio ? In the good old... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pàgines
...contents. What he undertook to perform was, to distribute the books into distinct classes, to arrange every class with some regard to the age of the writers,...looking up to him for the reward of his work, and re* See Note on the Dunciad, Book 11, T. 167. t Life of Pope. ceiving it accompanied with reproach... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1993 - 638 pàgines
...account of Johnson knocking down Osborne in his shop with a folio. He also gives Johnson's response: "'Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber'" (Life of Johnson, 112; see also "Boswell's Life of Johnson" [1832], Essays 3:102). Johnson knew both... | |
 | 1866 - 864 pàgines
...Johnson took no trouble to contradict the rumour, but, in mentioning the fact to Boswell,. said, " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him;, but...it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber." Oui1 illustration recalls a memorable scene which Johnson has himself described : — " I received... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 pàgines
...Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to ^ Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 3d. edit. p. 167. 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. 1 have no... | |
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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.... 
