| Robert Anderson - 696 páginas
...with the dark hues of political prejudice. " He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy : yet he never received my notions with contempt. He...honoured him, and he endured me. " He had mingled in the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies; but had never neglected the cultivation... | |
| J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 páginas
...not have acted thus.'5 Beilby was moved to reply by Johnson's characterisation of Gilbert Walmsley: 'He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party.' Since this was Beilby's own party, he felt authorised to cast odium on the Doctor: 'No man was ever... | |
| Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 páginas
...Smith," where Johnson's memory of Gilbert Walmsley acknowledges and overrides their political differences ("He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence...yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart") in order to record his learning and experience, and their companionship - and where the memory of Walmsley,... | |
| Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 páginas
...Walmesley himself. Years later, Johnson summed up his own contradictory feelings about his mentor. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence...keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me." Their relationship was based on its lack of ease as each found the views of the other repellent. Each... | |
| Stephen Miller - 2006 - 380 páginas
...conversation he had greatly enjoyed, even though Walmsley was a Whig. "He was a Whig," Johnson says, "with all the virulence and malevolence of his party;...keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me." Johnson then reminisces about the conversations he had at Walmsley's house. "At this man's table I... | |
| S. C. Roberts - 2010 - 150 páginas
...least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He...not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me. . . . His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1923 - 784 páginas
...least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He...not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me. . . . His studies had been so various that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 544 páginas
...least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " He was of an advanced age, and I was only but a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He...malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did uot keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me. " He had mingled with the gay world without exemption... | |
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