 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 oldal
...cynical old curate of Meudon,** <Tange" may be uncertain; but there can be no doubt which needed it most! "It having been observed that there was little hospitality...'And a very dull fellow.' Johnson: 'Why, no, Sir.'" — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. * "' Tristram Shandy' is still a greater object of admiration, the man... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 oldal
...more elegant than when in possession of the cynical old curate of Meudon,* — the more than rival of Johnson : ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who...And a very dull fellow.' Johnson: 'Why, no, sir.' "— BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage, and they used... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 oldal
...more elegant than when in possession of the cynical old curate of Meudon,* — the more than rival of Johnson : ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who...'And a very dull fellow.* Johnson: 'Why, no, sir.'" — BosWELL's Life of Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage, and they used to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 oldal
...more elegant than when in possession of the cynical old curate of Meudon,* — the more than rival of Johnson : ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who...'And a very dull fellow." Johnson: 'Why, no, sir.'" — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage, and they used to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 oldal
...more elegant than when in possession of the cynical old curate of Meudon,* — the more than rival of Johnson : 'Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who...months.' Goldsmith: 'And a very dull fellow. Johnson: ' \Vhy, no, sir.' " — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage,... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 oldal
...Thackeray. He preferred whining over a dead ass to relieving a living mother. — Byron. Johnson : " Any man who has a name or who has the power of pleasing...a very dull fellow." Johnson : "Why, no, sir."— " Life of J ohnson." No classic could endure Sterne's style. — Dr. Gregory. " Tristram Shandy" is... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 oldal
...ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience. " — GRAY'S Letters : June 22nd, 1 760. " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...'And a very dull fellow.' Johnson : 'Why, no, sir.' " — BOSWELL'S Life of Johnson. " Her [Mjss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage, and they used... | |
 | Laurence Sterne, David Herbert - 1872 - 512 oldal
...them, and humour sometimes hit and sometimes missed.' Boswell tells us, in his Life of Johnson, that it having been observed that there was little hospitality in London, Johnson said : ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be generally invited... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 oldal
...reach of his cluwï.' GOLDSMITH : ' Hi« chiws can do you no harm, when you have the shield of truth.' It having been observed that there was little hospitality...had engagements for three months.' GOLDSMITH : ' And ft very dull fellow.' JOHNSON : ' Why, no, sir.' Martinelli told ns that /or several years he lived... | |
 | 1873 - 852 oldal
...dull in a new way, and that made many people call him great. " ' 5 Nor did Sterne fare much better. ' It having been observed that there was little hospitality...very generally invited in London. The man Sterne, I am told, has had engagements for three months." GOLDSMITH: "And a very dull follow." JOHSSOS: " Why,... | |
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It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London : — JOHNSON. ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for... 
