 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 328 pagina’s
...early; early ; he was one of the firft friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at Icsft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was...all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 476 pagina’s
...very early $ he was one of the firil friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at leaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was...all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 456 pagina’s
...very early; he ivas one of the firft friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at leaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was...received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with afi the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pagina’s
...very early ; he was one of the firft friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at leaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was...all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pagina’s
...literature procured me, and I hope that at feaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of aft advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never...Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his patty; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he end i: red me. He had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 642 pagina’s
...early \ he was one of the firft friends that ' literature procured me j and, I hope that, at leaft^ c my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. ' He was...not * a boy; yet, he never received my notions with con1 tempt. He was a whigy with all the virulence and 1 malevolence of his party ; yet difference of... | |
 | John Hawkins - 1787 - 632 pagina’s
...early ; he was one of the firft friends that ' literature procured me ; and, I hope that, at leaft, ' my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. ' ' He...not * a boy ; yet, he never received my notions with con* tempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and f malevolence of his party ; yet difference of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pagina’s
...very early ; he was one of the firft friends that literature procured me, and I hope that, at leaft, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " He was...with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence 7 Mr. Warton informs me, " that this early friend of Johnfon was entered a Commoner of Trinity College,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pagina’s
...him very early; he was one of the firft friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at leaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was...all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pagina’s
...Smith, thus drawn in the glowing colours of gratitude : " Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I...all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me. " He had mingled with... | |
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Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early : he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of... 
