...modestly content to ring the bell to him. In Burke alone had Johnson his match. " Burke," he said, " is the only man whose common conversation corresponds...with the general fame which he has in the world;" and when ill, he declared that it would kill him to encounter Burke in argument. On one occasion Johnson...

...his mind; he does not talk from a desire of distinction, but because his mind is full;" and again, "Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds...general fame which he has in the world, Take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you." Although he possessed all this superiority, we do not learn...

...in conversation. "It seems strange (said he,) that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so short a way to the left. Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general frame which he has in the world. Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you." ' 'Mr...

...ebullition of his mind ; he does not talk from a desire of distinction, but because his mind is full."—" Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds...general fame which he has in the world. Take up whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you." In another instance, where some one had been paying himself...

...Johnson said that he was " the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame he has in the world. Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you." Burke's talk was " the ebullition of his mind," and while he allowed him extraordinary powers, he denied...

...Johnson said that he was " the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame he has in the world. Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you." Burke's talk was " the ebullition of his mind," and while he allowed him extraordinary powers, he denied...

...tribute of Johnson's, also quoted in Boswell's Life, is less equivocal. 'Burke is the only man whose conversation corresponds with the general fame which...whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you.' Burke made his first public attack on the French Revolution in a speech which he delivered in the House...

...left. Burke is the only man whose consmon conversation corresponds with the general fame which lie has in the world. Take up whatever topick you please,...discovered less acquaintance with one of the Classicks than Johnson expected, when the gentleman left the room, he observed, “You see, now, how little any...

...full." "He is the onlymxa," said he, at a later period, when Burke was at the zenith of Ms reputation, " whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take him up where you please, he is ready to meet you." "No man of sense," he said, "could meet Burke by...

...is the only man," he remarked, at a later period, when Burke was at the zenith of his reputation, " whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take him up where you please, he is ready to meet you." " No man of sense," he says, " could meet Burke...