Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bareheaded in the rain, on the spot where my father's... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 187de Thomas Carlyle - 1839 - 448 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 páginas
...to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and j^^" stood for a considerable time bareheaded in the rain, 75. on the spot where my father's stall used to stand....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." " I told him (says Miss Seward) in one of my latest visits to him, of a wonderful learned pig, which... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 páginas
...I went toUttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable .time bareheaded in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." * The following circumstance, mutually to the honour of Johnson and the corporation of his native city,... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 378 páginas
...lease was afterwards granted, and the Doctor died possessed of this property." 2 See Vol. I. p. 13. stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." " I told him (says Miss Seward), in one of roy latest visits to him, of a wonderful learned pig, which... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 382 páginas
...lease was afterwards granted, and the Doctor died possessed of this property." 2 See Vol. I. p.. 13. stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." " I told him (says Miss Seward), in one of my latest visits to him, of a wonderful learned pig, which... | |
| 1854 - 1112 páginas
...place. My pride prevented me ; I gave my father a refusal : and now to-day I have been at Uttoxetcr. I went into the market at the time of business, uncovered...on the spot where my father's stall used to stand." Who does not figure to himself this spectacle, amid the "rainy weather, and the sneers," or wonder,... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 444 páginas
...I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bareheaded in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory '." " I told him," says Miss Seward, "in one of my latest visits to him, of a wonderful learned pig,... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 570 páginas
...I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory V honour and pleasure of informing him, and that he was desired to accept it without paying any fine... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 600 páginas
...I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory3." honour and pleasure of informing him, and that he was desired to accept it without paying... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 456 páginas
...I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." (2) " I told him," says Miss Seward, " in one of my Johnson and the corporation of his native city,... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 590 páginas
...very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where rny father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory3." to Samuel Johnson, Doctor of Laws, of the encroachments at his house, for the term of... | |
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