 | James Boswell - 1910 - 542 pagina’s
...partiality to the companion of his Tour, represents him as one "whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, and civility of...in countries less hospitable than we have passed." Dr. Johnson thought it unnecessary to put himself to the additional expence of bringing with him Francis... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 pagina’s
...of finishing with the encomium of Dr. Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his ' Tour ' represents him as one ' whose acuteness would...civility of manners, are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.' Dr. Johnson in a letter... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - 380 pagina’s
...floor into a puddle. But these things did not trouble them. Johnson had " in Mr Boswell a companion, whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed." 3 So when luck comes their... | |
 | Arthur Michael Samuel - 1918 - 278 pagina’s
...as he himself says, " by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed." Unfortunately, in spite... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1922 - 320 pagina’s
...reference to himself in the first paragraph, as a "companion whose acuteness would help his inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners...in countries less hospitable than we have passed." This was gratifying, of course ; but the book as a whole failed to satisfy Boswell. He had had the... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1922 - 320 pagina’s
...reference to himself in the first paragraph, as a "companion whose acuteness would help his inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners...in countries less hospitable than we have passed." This was gratifying, of course ; but the book as a whole failed to satisfy Boswell. He had had the... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pagina’s
...undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell 1 a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed." The learned Traveller... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1924 - 322 pagina’s
...induced to take the journey by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel." Surely this is a very handsome compliment to one who has been looked upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 pagina’s
...partiality to the companion of his Tour represents him as one, ' whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, and civility of manners, are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.' Dr. Johnson thought it... | |
 | Helen Louise Cohen - 1927 - 406 pagina’s
...undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconvenience of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed." Wordsworth, the romantic,... | |
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He cannot deny himself the vanity of finishing with the encomium of Dr. Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his Tour represents him as one, " whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, and civility of manners,... 
