 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 784 pages
...called him a " Scotch cur." "No, no," replied Goldsmith, "you are too severe; he is only a Scotch bur. | / He showed this faculty by the way in which he took Johnson's first rebuff. Much as it discomposed him,... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...Scotch cur at JOHNSON'S heels?" replied, " He is not a Scotch cur, he is only a burr. Tom Davies flung him at JOHNSON in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." This same Tom Davies laughingly introduced Boswell to JOHNSON as a young Scotchman. " I do indeed come... | |
 | 1893 - 486 pages
...intimacy. " He is not a cur," answered Goldsmith, " You are too severe. He is only a burr. Tom Davis flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." In 1764, Goldsmith removed to a lodging on the library staircase of the Temple, and in few of the years... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 618 pages
...Johnson's heels, answered, " He is not a cur : you are too severe — lie is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." Boswell would probably have been more tolerant of Goldsmith as a rival, if he could have known that... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1895 - 570 pages
...Johnson's heels, answered, " He is not a cur : you are too severe — he is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." Boswell would probably have been more tolerant of Goldsmith as a rival, if he could have known that... | |
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...Johnson's heels, answered, " He is not a cur : you are too severe — he is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." Boswell would probably have been more tolerant of Goldsmith as a rival, if he could have known that... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 506 pages
...heels ? ' asked some one. ' He is not a cur,' replied Goldsmith, ' he is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking.' And the bur stuck till the end of Johnson's life. The curiously assorted pair met sixteen times previously... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...heels?" asked some one. " He is not a cur," replied Goldsmith ; " he is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." The bur stuck till the end of Johnson's life. Boswell visited London whenever he could, and soon began... | |
 | John Forster - 1903 - 482 pages
...intimacy. " He is not a cur," answered Goldsmith ; "you are too severe. He is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking." Boswell has retorted this respectful contempt, and in him it is excessively ludicrous. " It has been... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1905 - 910 pages
...heels ? ' asked some one. ' He is not a cur/ replied Goldsmith; fhe is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking.' It has been the fashion, even among Johnson's warmest admirers, to belittle and ridicule the man to... | |
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you are too severe. He is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking. 
