| William Cowper - 1835 - 382 pages
...book called ' Ikon Basilike,' &c." Cowper — " A strange proof of your proposition !" Johnson — " I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." Cowper — " They have all paid him more than you." Johnson — " If he... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...book called ' Ikon Basilike,' &c." Cowper — " A strange proof of your proposition !" Johnson — " I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." Cowpei — " They have all paid him more than you." Johnson — " If he... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 754 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-close, by West Smithfield. ? but among the uncertainties of the human state,..."Biographia Britannica." The "Old Whig" is not inserted in honoured by his presence. The King, with a lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other example,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-close, by West Sniithficld. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers : ever)' house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew Close, by West Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by bis presence. The king, with Irmly of which the world has had perhaps no other example,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-close, by West S'rnithfield. why he should not tliis great man by his biographers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...in this gloom of solitude?' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his life of Milton, he observes, " I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." I had, before I read this observation, been desirous of showing that respect... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-close, by West Smithfield. 1 cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence. The King, with a lenity of which the world has had perhaps no oilier example,... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 440 pages
...this gloom of solitude ?' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his life of Milton, he observes, " I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." I had, before I read this observation, been desirous of showing that respect... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...different view. " The system of education which he adopted * " I cannot but remark," says Dr. Johnson, " a kind of respect perhaps unconsciously, paid to this...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." Indeed it is known that foreigners of distinction gratified their curiosity,... | |
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