 | James Boswell - 1831 - 570 oldal
...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ?" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." [It has been asserted (European Mag. 1796, 1 [The accuracy of this assertion seems doubtful ; at which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 oldal
...you reckon Derrick or Smart (') the best poet?" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of myself in company, he said to me, " Boswell, you... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 oldal
...proved FalstafT to be no csward, be may prove lago to be a very good character."— BOSWELL. answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a rlea." [It hag been asserted (European Mag. 1796, p. 16), that the foregoing comparison was made, not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 oldal
...FalstafF to be no coward, he may prove lago to be a very good character." — BOSWCLL. answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." [It has been asserted (Evropean -Mag. 1796, p. 16), that the foregoing comparison was made, not between... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 oldal
...do you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ?" Johnson at once felt himself roused, and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." Oiice, when checking my boasting too frequently of myself in company, he said to me, " Boswell, you... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 oldal
...was of Boyce and Derrick that Johnson was asked at Lord Shelburne's which he thought the best poet. " Sir, " there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea !" The question was put by Morgann (who wrote the admirable Euay on Falttaff), expreasly to provoke... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 oldal
...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ?" Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." — Boswell, 721. JOHNSON was pleased to say to me one morning when we were left alone in his study,... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 oldal
...was of Boyce and Derrick that Johnson was asked at Lord Shelhurne's which he thought the best poet. "Sir, there is no settling the point of "precedency between a louse andaflea!" The question was put by Morgann (who wrote the admirable Essay on Falstaff), expressly to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 192 oldal
...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ? ' Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, ' Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.' " Once, when checking my boasting too frequently of myself in company, he said to me, ' Boswell, you... | |
 | James Boswell - 1879 - 302 oldal
...you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet ? " Johnson at once felt himself roused ; and answered, " Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." Boswell's " Life of Johnson." Date of March 3Oth, 1783.— ED. passed many a pleasant hour. Johnston... | |
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Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. 
