| James Boswell - 1880 - 488 páginas
...any disgrace, but that ot poverty." He died in 1T67. ft* self. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and 1 beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber." A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have no... | |
| 1880 - 584 páginas
...neck." Johnson, however, explained the affair thus: "Kir, he was impertinent to me. and I beat him. |lut it was not in his shop, it was in my own chamber." Osbonie purchased the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts for £18.0(10. for the binding only of which... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 páginas
...of characters could not be brought 1 Boswell says, " The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. ' Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber.'" Vol. i.. p. 115. -Editor. together ; the nobleman, celebrated for his wit, and all the graces of polite... | |
| James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 páginas
...often been told of the Doctor knocking down Osborne in his shop with a folio. The truth was, as he told Boswell, " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop; it was at my own house." Mrs. Thrale also asked him to tell about this, and he said, " There is nothing to... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 páginas
...author. A stronger contrast of characters could not 1 The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. ' to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was Vol. L, p. 1 15-— Editor. together ; the nobleman, celebrated for his wit, and all the graces of... | |
| James Boswell - 1885 - 454 páginas
...Library Osbome had bought How Johnson rebuked the bookseller : " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and 1 beat him. But it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber." Business letters to Cave I Contributions to The Gentleman's Magazine . . . 1 A Latin Ode of Johnson's... | |
| James Boswell - 1888 - 608 páginas
...shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber."" A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have no... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 566 páginas
...his shop with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber." A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have no... | |
| James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself "Sir, he was impertinent to me and I beat him. But it was not ш his shop; it was ш my own chamber." A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not... | |
| 1892 - 448 páginas
...renown as having been the field of battle. For the Doctor is at pains to be precise upon the matter : " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber." But, in spite of this, the neighbourhood would furnish more than one shrine for worship to the literary... | |
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