 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 pàgines
...that literature procured me, and I hope that, at least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy;...my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all * Mr. Warton informs me, " that this early friend of Johnson was entered a Commoner of Trinity College,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 pàgines
...that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only yet a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt....I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vice or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 612 pàgines
...that literature procured me, and I hope that, at least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. 'He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy,...not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me. 'At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions, such as are not... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 pàgines
...literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " He was of advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never...honoured him, and he endured me. " He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 pàgines
...that literature procured me, and I hope that, at least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. 'He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy,...difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured Mm and he endured me. 'At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1923 - 440 pàgines
...literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " He was of advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. lie was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 pàgines
...literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. "He was of advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never...honoured him, and he endured me. " He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pàgines
...Walpole and other gouty martyrs ? • Lives of the English Poets. Johnson there writes of Walmsley : " He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy...; yet he never received my notions with contempt." A MAN OF THE WORLD 97 man , as distinguished for his complaisance. ' ' i May we not conclude that his... | |
 | 1925 - 638 pàgines
...literature procured me, and I hope that, at least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. ' ' He was of advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never...keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. "His studies had been so various that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 pàgines
...not have acted thus.'5 Beilby was moved to reply by Johnson's characterisation of Gilbert Walmsley: 'He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party.' Since this was Beilby's own party, he felt authorised to cast odium on the Doctor: 'No man was ever... | |
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He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me. 
