 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu d' Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 strani
...will coalesce a great deal sooner than those who are cold and dull. illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his Life, the opinion of Johnson himself....literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu d' Esprit upon the following passage • in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 strani
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu d' Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary:... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 strani
...most compre-hensi-ce The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair" This light sally, we may suppose, made no great im- 46. pression on our Lexicographer; for we find... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 strani
...A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing." At a late period of his life he said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.'' During a visit at Oxford, the following conversation passed between the Doctor and Mr. Boswell on the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 strani
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jcu iГ Esprit upon the following passage in hie Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 strani
...A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing." At a late period of his life he said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not...should -keep his friendship in constant repair.''' During a visit at Oxford, the following conversation passed between the Doctor and Mr. Boswell on the... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 382 strani
...the part of Johnson, for having, in a degree, forced himself into an intimacy ; when Johnson said, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone: a man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." 1758. jETAT. 34. FROM a letter of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 strani
...as to some point : I am only saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho, in. Ovid." * He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not...life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair." Amid the cokl obscurity of Johnson's early life, there... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 strani
...endeavoured to illnstrate was, at a subseqnent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson hiiuself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not...acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon und himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." The celebrated... | |
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If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." The celebrated Mr. Wilkes, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his,... 
