 | 1870 - 844 pàgines
...Goldsmith. " He is not a cur," replied Goldsmith; "you are too severe; he is only a burr. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." Miss Burncy thus caricatures the appearance of Boswell in Johnson's presence, when intent upon his... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1876 - 538 pàgines
...replied Goldsmith, playing on the word, " you are too severe ; he is merely a Scotch bur. Tom Uavies threw him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of stiiking." — John Wilkes. And Boswell, aping with preposterous pride, Johnson's worst frailties,... | |
 | Lucy Cecil Lillie - 1878 - 384 pàgines
...Goldsmith. " He is not a cur," said Goldsmith in gentle scorn. " He is only a burr. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport and he has the faculty of sticking." Yet there is no doubt Johnson was fond of him in a sort of way, although he was ready enough to make... | |
 | William Black - 1879 - 180 pàgines
...Johnson's heels, answered, " He is not a cur : you are too severe — he is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." Boswell would probably have been more tolerant of Goldsmith as a rival, if he could have known that... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pàgines
...Johnson's heels, answered, "He is not a cur ; you are too severe— he is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." Boswell would probably have been more tolerant of Goldsmith as a rival, if he could have known that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 780 pàgines
...called him a " Scotch cur." "No, no," replied Goldsmith, "you are too severe; he is only a Scotch bur. Tom Davies threw him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of stiching." He showed this faculty by the way in which he took Johnson's first rebuff. Much as it discomposed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 952 pàgines
...- He is not a cur." replied Goldsmith, " you are too •evere ; he is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." CHAPTER XIV. HigBrth a viator at Islington— his character.— Street studies.— Sympathies between... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pàgines
...Boswell, Goldsmith replied, " He is not a cur : you are too severe ; he is only a burr ; Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." PAUL JONES. [A famous naval commander; born in Scotland, 1747; emigrated to Virginia; entered the colonial... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1883 - 166 pàgines
...called him a " Scotch cur." "No, no," replied Goldsmith, "you are too severe; he is only a Scotch bur. Tom Davies threw him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." He showed this faculty by the way in which he took Johnson's first rebuff. Much as it discomposed him,... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 pàgines
...Johnson's heels ? " " He is not a Scotch cur," replied the poet, " he is only a burr. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." This same Tom Davies laughingly introduced Boswell to Johnson as a young Scotchman. " I do, indeed,... | |
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you are too severe. He is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking. 
