 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 σελίδες
...from this publication. Life, ii. 64; iii. 271. 4 ' Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance, a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his wit." Ib. ii. 231. 'And then also for men's reputation ; and that either in point of wisdom or of wit. There... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 σελίδες
...from this publication. Life, ii. 64; iii. 271. 4 ' Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance, a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his wit.' Ib. ii. 231. 'And then also for men's reputation ; and that either in point of wisdom or of wit. There... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1899 - 296 σελίδες
...temper for it, he is so much mortified when he fails. Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance, a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his wit. Now Goldsmith's putting himself against another, is like a man laying a hundred to one who cannot spare... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 σελίδες
...temper for it, he is so much mortified when he fails. Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance. A man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his wit. Now Goldsmith's putting himself against another, is like a man laying a hundred to one who cannot spare... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 σελίδες
...temper for it, he is so much mortified when he fails. Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, trange to Murphy and me, who never felt that anxiety, but sent what we wrote to the Goldsmith's putting himself against another, is like a man laying a hundred to one who cannot spare... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 448 σελίδες
...Mansfield and Lord Camden united in 1769, and from which only five of a numerous body entered a protest. chance ; a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his wit. Now Goldsmith's putting himself against another, is like a man laying a hundred to one who cannot spare... | |
 | John Forster - 1903 - 482 σελίδες
...much mortified when he fails. Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance;a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his wit. Now, Goldsmith putting himself against another, is like a man laying a hundred to one, who cannot spare... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - 1903 - 320 σελίδες
...temper for it, he is so much mortified when he fails. Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance; a man may be beat at times by one who has not a tenth part of his wit. Now Goldsmith's putting himself against another is like a man laying a hundred... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 σελίδες
...temper for it, he is so much mortified when he fails. Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, to a kind of mysterious veneration, by figuring to myself a state of solemn elevated abstracti Goldsmith's putting himself against another, is like a man laying a hundred to one who cannot spare... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...temper for it, he is so much mortified when he fails. Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance, a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his wit. Now Goldsmith's putting himself against another, is like a man laying a hundred to one who cannot spare... | |
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Goldsmith should not be for ever attempting to shine in conversation : he has not temper for it, he is so much mortified when he fails. Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance ; a man may be beat at times by one who has not... 
