 That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.  The Living Age - Pagina 4711908Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1895 - 486 pagina’s
...resented them to suit the views of different parties. Dr. Johnson is said to have confessed that " he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it ; " and, in the same spirit, the arguments of all parties were in turn perverted or suppressed.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1895 - 496 pagina’s
...resented them to suit the views of different parties. Dr. Johnson is said to have confessed that " he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it;"and, in the same spirit, the arguments of all parties were in turn perverted or suppressed. Galling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 304 pagina’s
...never entered Parliament, and the debates were largely fictions, in which, by his own confession, he ' took care that the Whig Dogs should not have the best of it,' their writing seems to bear little upon the subject of the FOURTH ESTATE. See in this volume,... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - 1897 - 248 pagina’s
...but oiice. And I am afraid he allowed his political prejudices a little to colour what he wrote; he " took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." You cannot rely on the absolute accuracy of these reports. But even for such reports Cave was... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pagina’s
...both parties. ' That is not quite true,' said Johnson ; ' I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it V The sale of the Magazine was ' Some of the speeches had been previously given in the Political... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pagina’s
...both parties. ' That is not quite true,' said Johnson ; ' I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it V The sale of the Magazine was ' Some of the speeches had been previously given in the Political... | |
 | 1897 - 760 pagina’s
...his reputation that this should have been done. His saying is familiar, that in these reports he " took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it " ; but it is not, perhaps, so generally known that he was never himself present at any of the debates... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pagina’s
...answered with charming frankness, " That is not quite true; I saved appearances pretty well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." In 1738 appeared a poem entkled "London," an imitation of the third satire of Juvenal. It met... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pagina’s
...impartiality, Johnson replied, " That is not quite true ; I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." The speeches passed for a time as accurate ; though, in truth, it has been proved and it is easy... | |
 | 1901 - 924 pagina’s
...wrote the debates in parliament published by Cave under the title of The Senate of Lillijmt, and ' took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' In 1738 he attempted to do with Juvenal what Pope had been doing with Horace; he published his... | |
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