 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 500 páginas
...because, 'dearest, you are a dunce.' When she some time afterwards 'mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, ' ' Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' " Boswell, who tells the story, puts the date at 1781. A year later, Madame d'Arblay, in her Diary... | |
 | 1900 - 674 páginas
...because, dearest, you are a dunce !" When she mentioned this to him some time afterwards he replied : " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it." The truth could not be more neatly put. Boswell notes, with some surprise, that when Johnson dined... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 510 páginas
...because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she sometime afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness ; " Madam, if I had thought...circulated the bottle very freely. Lord Graham and I went 1 When I mentioned this to the Bishop of Killaloe, " With the goat," said his Lordship. Such, however,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 páginas
...because, dearest, you're a dunce.' When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness, ' Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' " — Ibid. * A passage or two from Sterne's Sermons may not be without interest here. Is not the following,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 páginas
...because, dearest, you are a dunce !" When she mentioned this to him some time afterwards he replied : " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it." The truth could not be more neatly put. Boswell notes, with some surprise, that when Johnson dined... | |
 | 1903 - 636 páginas
...and that the sapient doctor was wrong. When she mentioned his speech to him afterwards, he replied, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it." But, all the same, the name " little dunce " stuck to her. Boswell also records an incident which did... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1904 - 428 páginas
...you are a dunce ; ' which unparliamentary stroke he afterwards handsomely withdrew, saying, ' with equal truth and politeness, ' ' Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' Posterity has happily reversed many of these rough-and-ready verdicts. The moralist someway never forgave... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 740 páginas
...you are a dunce ; ' which unparliamentary stroke he afterwards handsomely withdrew, saying, ' with equal truth and politeness, ' ' Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' Posterity has happily reversed many of these rough-and-ready verdicts. The moralist someway never forgave... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 402 páginas
...dearest, you are a dunce ; ' which unparliamentary stroke he afterwards handsomely withdrew, saying, 'with equal truth and politeness,' 'Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' Posterity has happily reversed many of these rough-and-ready verdicts. The moralist someway never forgave... | |
 | Sir William Weller Pepys - 1904 - 516 páginas
...affected her, "That is because, dearest, you're a dunce," rejoined the Doctor. He afterwards added, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it." Bennet Langton, writing to Boswell, enumerated a group of blue stockings at Miss Monckton's house.... | |
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I am sure (said she) they have affected me" — " Why (said Johnson, smiling, and rolling himself about,) that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness ; " Madam,... 
