 | Leslie Stephen - 1899 - 476 pages
...David Garrick, ' many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found.' He was ' a whig with all the virulence and malevolence of his party,' but polite and learned, so that Johnson could not name ' a man of equal knowledge,' and the benefit... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...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 was a whig, with all • Mr. Warton informs me, " that this early friend of Johnson was entered a Commoner of Trinity College,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 526 pages
...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...mingled with the gay world without exemption from its 1 Mr. Warton informs me, " that this early friend of Johnson was entered a Commoner of Trinity College,... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 616 pages
...it was rapture; the thought of it sweetened the whole year."4 He has stated of Mr. Walmesley that " he was a Whig with all the virulence and malevolence of his party."5 The Astons were of the same political school, and the fascinating Molly declaimed much in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 pages
...SMITH, 46. and in a short time Smith was 4 Boswell's Johnson, i. 8l, IO2. deplumed.' HAWKINS, Johnson's never received my notions with contempt. He was a...mingled with the gay world without exemption from 74 its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation... | |
 | Edward Burrow - 1906 - 100 pages
...life-long friend, Gilbeit Walmsley, Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court of Lichfield, who was a \Vhig with all the virulence and malevolence of his party, yet difference of opinion did not keep them apart, although Johnson was a bigoted Tory. USHER OF MARKET HOSWORTH SCHOOL. Being obliged by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 pages
...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 was a whig, with all * Mr. Warton informs me, " that this early friend of Johnson was entered a Commoner of Trinity College,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 pages
...least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only yet a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He...mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vice or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of revelation... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 pages
...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...difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured Mm and he endured me. 'At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions,... | |
 | 1925 - 638 pages
...least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. ' ' He was of advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He...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... | |
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Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of... 
