 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 oldal
...your Preface you say, "What would it avail me in this gloom of solitude4?" You have been agreeably mistaken.' In his Life of Milton* he observes, ' I...had, before I read this observation, been desirous of shewing that respect to Johnson, by various inquiries. Finding him this evening in a very good humour,... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 oldal
...your Preface you say, "What would it avail me in this gloom of solitude4?" You have been agreeably mistaken.' In his Life of Milton* he observes, 'I...had, before I read this observation, been desirous of shewing that respect to Johnson, by various inquiries. Finding him this evening in a very good humour,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 oldal
...your Preface you say, ' What would it avail me in this gloom of solitude ? ' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his Life of Milton he observes, " I...had, before I read this observation, been desirous of shewing that respect to Johnson, by various inquiries. Finding him this evening in a very good humour,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 oldal
...blower or bellows. — EIAUTIT. * " The Spleen," a poem by Matthew Green. > CONJUGAL INFIDELITY. 103 In his life of Milton, he observes, " I cannot but...to Johnson, by various inquiries. Finding him this evening in a very good humour, I pievailed on him to give me an exact list of his places of residence,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 oldal
...solitude?' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his life of Milton, he observes, " I cann :ry house m * with g evening in a very good humour, I prevailed on him to give me an exact list of his places of residence,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 oldal
...remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers : every 30 house in which he resided is historically mentioned,...naming any place that he honoured by his presence. The King, with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other example, declined to be the judge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 oldal
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-Close by West Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...which he resided is historically mentioned, as if IO it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence. The King, with lenity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 oldal
...your Preface you say, ' What would it avail me in this gloom of solitude ? ' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his Life of Milton he observes, " I...had, before I read this observation, been desirous of shewing that respect to Johnson, by various inquiries. Finding him this evening in a very good humour,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 oldal
...observes, " I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to thisgreatmanbyhis c c \ W W epe`g Z b ` ` ` • " The Spleen," a potto. АСЕ 7<э] BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON by various inquiries. Finding him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 oldal
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew Close, by West Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect perhaps unconsciously...historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect 5 naming any place that he honoured by his presence. The king, with lenity of which the world has had... | |
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I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers: every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence. 
