 | Virgil McClure Harris - 1912 - 496 páginas
...commendation of the work ; the courtly device failed of its effect. Johnson said to Boswell, "Sir, after making great professions, he had, for many years,...what he said or wrote, and that I had done with him." And, he added, "This man, I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find, he is only a wit among... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 páginas
...had for many years taken no notice of me; but when my Dictionary was coming out, he fell a-scribbling in The World about it. Upon which I wrote him a letter...said or wrote, and that I had done with him." This is that celebrated letter of which so much has been said, and about which curiosity has been so long... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...had for many years taken no notice of me; but when my Dictionary was coming out, he fell a-scribbling in The World about it. Upon which I wrote him a letter...said or wrote, and that I had done with him." This is that celebrated letter of which so much has been said, and about which curiosity has been so long... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...had for many years taken no notice of me; but when my Dictionary was coming out, he fell a-scribbling in The World about it. Upon which I wrote him a letter...said or wrote, and that I had done with him." This is that celebrated letter of which so much has been said, and about which curiosity has been so long... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 páginas
...such an artifice. His expression to me concerning Lord Chesterfield, upon this occasion, was, "Sir, after making great professions, he had, for many years,...said or wrote, and that I had done with him." This is that celebrated letter of which so much has been said, and about which curiosity has been so long... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 páginas
...had for many years taken no notice of me; but when my Dictionary was coming out he fell a-scribbling in the World about it. Upon which I wrote him a letter...what he said or wrote, and that I had done with him." "February 7, 1755. "To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield, "Mr LORD, "I have been lately... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 páginas
...THE WORLD about it. On which I wrote him a letter, expressed in civil terms, but such as might shew him that I did not mind what he said or wrote, and that I had done with him." We shall now lay before our readers a transcript of this justly-admired letter : " My Lord, " I have... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 páginas
...many years, taken no notice of me; but when my Dictionary was coming out, he fell a scribbling in Tke low: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing...is always clear and serene), atft to see the erro is that celebrated letter of which so much has been said, and about which curiosity has been so long... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 páginas
...World' about it. Upon which, I wrote him a letter expressed in civil terms, but such as might shew him that I did not mind what he said or wrote, and that I had done with him." This is that celebrated letter of which so much has been said, and about which curiosity has been so long... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 páginas
...for many years, taken no notice of me ; but when my Dictionary was coming out, he fell a-scribbling in The. World about it. Upon which, I wrote him a...what he said or wrote, and that I had done with him.' " — Boswell, Life of Johnson. *2 "The conqueror of the conqueror of the earth" — part of a famous... | |
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all was false and hollow," despised the honeyed words, and was even indignant that Lord Chesterfield should, for a moment, imagine that he could be the dupe of such an artifice. His expression to me concerning Lord Chesterfield, upon this occasion, was,... 
