...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...Smith," where Johnson's memory of Gilbert Walmsley acknowledges and overrides their political differences ("He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence...yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart") in order to record his learning and experience, and their companionship - and where the memory of Walmsley,...

...Walmesley himself. Years later, Johnson summed up his own contradictory feelings about his mentor. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence...keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me." Their relationship was based on its lack of ease as each found the views of the other repellent. Each...

...conversation he had greatly enjoyed, even though Walmsley was a Whig. "He was a Whig," Johnson says, "with all the virulence and malevolence of his party;...keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me." Johnson then reminisces about the conversations he had at Walmsley's house. "At this man's table I...