 I was disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 542avtor: James Boswell - 1917 - 574 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 strani
...went into the market at the time of business, uncovered my head and stood with it bare for an hour on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood and I hope that the penance was expiatory." Any epithet in the dictionary would seem more suitable to such conduct... | |
 | 1896 - 958 strani
...disobedient: I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.' " A traveler, who visited Lichfield a few years after Johnson's death, was told that on this day of... | |
 | 1859 - 868 strani
...White, he stated' that he had been disobedient to his ftther, and that ne felt pride to be the cause. " A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault....father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, nnd I hope the penance was expiatory." In his last year he surprised not a little Mr. Henderson, by... | |
 | Joseph Adamson, Hilary Anne Clark - 1999 - 296 strani
...disobedient; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter-market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." (Boswell 578; Ashbourne, August 12, 1784) bareheaded, a venerable figure, and a countenance extremely... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 604 strani
...his studies to stand in for his father at the Uttoxeter market: Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my fathers stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.893 So he... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 strani
...explained to Boswell, refusing to help at his father's bookstall: Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory. And he found his mother petty, impossible to satisfy and punitive. She it was who warned him about... | |
 | William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd - 2003 - 352 strani
...disobedient; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.'76 be held at bay. Installed in London, Johnson did not once make the two-day journey back... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 strani
...disobedient; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter-market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.' 11 This brief moment in BoswelTs text inspired a great deal of nineteenthcentury specular curiosity,... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 strani
...disobedient; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter-market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.'11 This brief moment in Boswell's text inspired a great deal of nineteenthcentury specular... | |
 | 1876 - 326 strani
...disobedient I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter Market. Pride was the source of this refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." (Dr. Johnson's conversation with " Mr. Henry White, a young clergyman " in Lrchfield, in 1784.) —... | |
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