 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 oldal
...think ; Burke, how to speak , And Beauclerk to converse. " Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace ; From him I'll learn to write ; Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite." 343. Scepticism.... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 oldal
...think; Burke, how to speak; And Beauclerk to converse. " Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace; From him I'll learn to write ; Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite." 343. Scepticism.... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 oldal
...think; Burke, how to speak; And Beauclerk to converse. " Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace; From him I'll learn to write ; Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite." 343. Scepticism.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 oldal
...think; Uurke, how to speak. And Beauclerk to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace: From him I'll learn to write: Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, tike himself, polite."] Johnson told... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1844 - 552 oldal
...think; Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace, From him I'll learn to write; Copy his clear and easy style, And from the roughness of his file, Grow, as himself,—polite! 8 Garrick read Cumberland's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 oldal
...different men. They concluded with delicate irony :— ' Johnson shall teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace; From him I'll learn to write, — Copy his clear familiar style, , And, by the roughness of his file, Grow, like himself, polite! " to consider how few of the... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 410 oldal
...think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk, to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace, From him I'll learn to write: Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite. WHEN Molly smiles... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 oldal
...different men. They concluded with delicate irony : " Johnson shall teach me how to place, In fairest light each borrow'd grace ; From him I'll learn to write : Copy his clear familiar style, And by the roughness of his file, Grow — like himself— polite." ' I know not if Johnson... | |
 | 1880 - 556 oldal
...perfectness from different friends, he says, — '• Johnson shall teach me how to place. In varied li^ht, each borrow'd grace ; From him I'll learn to write ; Copy his clear familiar style, And by the roughness of his file, Grow, like himself, polite. Johnson, on tliis as on many occasions,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 oldal
...different men. They concluded with delicate irony: " Johnson shall teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace : From him I'll learn to write, Copy his clear familiar style, And, by the roughness of his file, Grow, like himself, polite." that I have known. Here, Sir,... | |
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Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak , And Beauclerk to converse. " Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace ; From... 
