 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 pagina’s
...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S Letters: June 22nd, 1760. " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...Johnson : ' Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who lias the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man, Sterne, I have been... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 450 pagina’s
...this hospitality as a tribute ; while his contemporaries saw the festivity in a very different light. "Any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing," said Johnson, " will be very generally invited in London. The man Sterne, I am told, has had engagements... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 468 pagina’s
...hospitality as a tribute ; while his contemporaries saw the festivity in a very different light. " Any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing," said Johnson, "will be very generally invited in London. The man Sterne, I am told, has had enerae;ements... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 500 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 pagina’s
...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S Letters : June unit, 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 [Miss Monckton's] vivacity enchanted the sage, and they... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 880 pagina’s
...audience." — GRAY'S Letters: Junr 22nd, 17(K). " It having been observed that there was little hospitnlity in London — Johnson : ' Nay, sir, any man who has...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 - 1884 - 664 pagina’s
...and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience." — GRAY'S Letters: Jiinczznd, 1760. " It having been observed that there was little hospitality...engagements for three months.' Goldsmith : ' And a very dull fellow.1 Johnson : ' Why no, sir.' " — BOSWELL'S Life of 'Johnson. " Her [Miss Monckton's] vivacity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pagina’s
...reach of his claws." GOLDSMITH. " His claws can do you no harm, when you have the shield of truth." who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally..."And a very dull fellow." JOHNSON. " Why, no, Sir." l Martinelli told us, that for several years he lived much with Charles Townshend, 2 and that he ventured... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 pagina’s
...all his good and genial qualities, was a little addicted to envy. Take another scrap from Boswell : ' It having been observed that there was little hospitality...has the power of pleasing, will be very generally visited in London. The man Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three months. GOLDSMITH... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pagina’s
...was a point of duty that called him away, and added, "We shall be sorry to lose you : laudo tamm." It having been observed that there was little hospitality...has a name, or who has the power of pleasing will be generally invited in London. The man Sterne, 1 have been told, has had engagements for three months."... | |
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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... 
