...inscription, over Elizabeth Blaney,b to be substantially and carefully renewed. To Mr. Henry White, a young clergyman, with whom he now formed an intimacy,...was disobedient ; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter-market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few...

...inscription over Elizabeth Blaney l to be substantially and carefully renewed. To Mr. Henry White, a young clergyman, with whom he now formed an intimacy,...was disobedient ; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter-market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few...

...is arrested by a monument. Thereby hangs a tale. " Once," said old Dr. Johnson, the literary king, " I was disobedient. I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the SIR WALTER SCOTT. source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago, I...

..." Travellers' Edition, and the note of 1879 there added : see now Vol. IX. p. 26 and n.] 1 ["Once," said he, "I was disobedient: I refused to attend my father to CJttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, aud the remembrance of it was painful. A few...

...granite rock: a soft well of Pity springs within! Still more tragical is this other scene: "Johnson mentioned that he could not in general accuse himself of having been an undutiful son. ' Once, 20 indeed,' said he, 'I was disobedient: I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was...

...inscription, over Elizabeth Blaney,b to be substantially and carefully renewed. To Mr. Henry White, a young clergyman, with whom he now formed an intimacy,...was disobedient ; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter-market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few...

...Henry White, " sir, I cannot accuse myself of having been in general an undutiful son. Once, indeed, I was disobedient ; I refused to attend my father...was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather,...

...later. Dr Johnson, at the age of seventy-five, himself related the story of his penance. He was saying that he could not in general accuse himself of having been an undutiful son, " but once, indeed," he said, " I was disobedient ; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market....

...and inscription over Elizabeth Blaney to be substantially and carefully renewed. To Mr. Henry White, a young clergyman, with whom he now formed an intimacy,...was disobedient; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter-market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few...

...dead, or who impulsively strikes out in some act that symbolizes both his uncertainty and his hope: " 'once, indeed, (said he,) I was disobedient; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter-market. ... A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very...