 Here was exemplified what Goldsmith said of him, with the aid of a very witty image from one of Gibber's Comedies: " There is no arguing with Johnson ; for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.  Boswell's Life of Johnson - 509. oldalszerző: James Boswell - 1917 - 574 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 oldal
...the shadow. Of Carlyle, as of Johnson, it might have heen said, " There is no use arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire he knocks you down with the butt:" both men would have benefited by revolt from their dictation, but the power to contradict either was... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 656 oldal
...that came to hand. "There is no arguing with Johnson," said Goldsmith, quoting a phrase from Gibber, " for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt-end of it." Johnson's view of conversation is indicated by his remark about Burke. " That fellow,"... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 oldal
...by mere vociferation or savage personality. "There is no arguing with Johnson," said Goldsmith ; " for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the but-end of it." He looked upon conversation as an intellectual wrestling, and delighted in it as a... | |
 | 1927 - 922 oldal
...that his opponent was, if not drunk, on the verge of that condition. Well might Goldsmith say, "There is no arguing with Johnson; for if his pistol misses...fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." If any further justification is needed for the statement just made turn to the account given of the... | |
 | 1923 - 1004 oldal
...victory.' Goldsmith quoted from one of Gibber's comedies : ' There is no arguing with Johnson ; for when his pistol misses fire he knocks you down with the butt end of it.' Apart from all this, he had a fund of good-natured humour, and could fall in with a joke. VOL. XCIV—... | |
 | 1923 - 976 oldal
...victory.' Goldsmith quoted from one of Gibber's comedies : ' There is no arguing with Johnson ; for when his pistol misses fire he knocks you down with the butt end of it.' Apart from all this, he had a fund of good-natured humour, and could fall in with a joke. VOL. XCIV—Xo.... | |
 | Carlos Baker - 1972 - 464 oldal
...persiflage that reminded at least one reader of Goldsmith's remark about Dr. Samuel Johnson: "When his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it."28 Among the reviewers, Lawrence Morris saw the book as the somewhat ursine shrug with which a... | |
 | Robert Tarbell Oliver - 1986 - 332 oldal
...recollection that he was notoriously careless of facts and that, in his conversation, as Goldsmith observed, "If his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." 24 Aside from the highly quotable belittlements of Chesterfield by Johnson, there has also been a general... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 oldal
...are apathy and weakness. GOLDSMITH Oliver 1730-1774 4146 There is no arguing with Johnson; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. 4147 The Bee no. 3 The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 4148... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 oldal
...DIP Vicar of Wakefte\A(iJhh}fh. 29; cf. Eliot 296:11 31 There is no arguing with Johnson; l'or when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. (ames lioswcll Lite of Samuel ¡ohnson < 1 79 1 ) 2fi October 1769 32 As I take my shoes from the shoemaker,... | |
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