 | James Boswell - 1821 - 398 páginas
...coxcomb, maintains, that all scholars are blockheads on account of their scholarship. , . J. BOSWELL.] striking proof of the fallacy of appearances, and...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | 1821 - 372 páginas
...Adams, he said, " Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disgregarded all power and all authority." On a visit to Oxford, three-and-twenty years after he had... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 páginas
...Padua. — And I'll mind my business. For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads." 5 Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 páginas
...Padua. — And I'll mind my business. For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads." 5 Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present renerable master of... | |
 | 1822 - 292 páginas
...sir (said he to Mr. Boswell), 1 was mad and violent. It was hitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' He struggled through another year, and had some intention of applying himself to either the civil or... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 páginas
...he was then depressed by poverty, and irritated by disease. When I mentioned to him this account aa given me by Dr. Adams, he said, " Ah, Sir, I was mad...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 páginas
...to Padua. — And I'll mind my business. For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheadsq." Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 páginas
...violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight niy hould be the directing soul and vex ing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him sav, what ought to be... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 560 páginas
...Pembroke, he answered, " Ah ! Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...; so I disregarded all power, and all authority." Even such a rebel against college discipline Swift appears to have been, under similar circumstances... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 páginas
...Pembroke, he answered, "Ah! Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit; so I disregarded all power, and all authority." Even such a rebel against college discipline Swift appears to have been, under similar circumstances... | |
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Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolick. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter... 
