 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions suchas are not often found — with one who has lengthened, • Mr. Warton informs me, "that this early... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 474 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...his friendship. At this man's table I enjoyed many chearful and instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 462 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life; with Dr. James, whose skill in... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 440 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pàgines
...equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill... | |
 | A. B. Clifton - 1898 - 156 pàgines
...says that he is "not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness...instructive hours with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr James, whose skill in... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1898 - 448 pàgines
...crjual knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...such his copiousness of communication, that it may bc doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not some advantage from his friendship. " At this... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1899 - 476 pàgines
...Liehfield for thirty years; and Johnson, then a stripling at school, spent there, with David Garrick, ' many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found.' He was ' a whig with all the virulence and malevolence of his party,' but polite and learned,... | |
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His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. 
