 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-Close, by West Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously...historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to n«glect naming any place that he honour^ cd by his presence. The King, with lenity of which, the world... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-Close, by West-Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps Unconsciously,...naming any place that he honoured by his presence. The King, with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other example, declined to be the judge... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...your Preface you say, ' What would it avail me in this gloom of solitude ?' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his life of Milton, he observes, " I...place that he honoured by his presence." I had, before 1 read this observation, been desirous of shewing that respect to Johnson, by various enquiries. Finding... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in BartholomewClose, by West-Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...naming any place that he honoured by his presence. • The King, with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other example, declined to be the judge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-Close, by WestSmithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...naming any place that he honoured by his presence. The king, with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other example, declined to be the judge... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...your Preface you say, ' What would it avail me in this gloom of solitude ? ' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his life of Milton, he observes, " I...had, before I read this observation, been desirous of shewing that respect to Johnson, by various enquiries. Finding him this evening in a very good humour,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid. himself for a time in BartholomewClose, by West-Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...naming any place that he honoured by his presence. The King, with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other example, declined to be the judge... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 482 pages
...fell. Every mouth opened upon them, as soon as liberty of Speech was first granted, some attacking the perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his...naming any place that he honoured by his presence." They were in Aldersgate Street, Barbican, High Holborn (the back part opening into Lincoln's Inn Fields)... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...your Preface you say, ' What would it avail roe in this gloom of solitude?* You have been agreeably mistaken. In his life of Milton, he observes, " I...to this great man by his biographers: every house iu which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-Close, by West-Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...naming any place that he honoured by his presence. The King, with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other example, declined to be the judge... | |
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I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers: every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence. 
