 | John Forster - 1876 - 498 σελίδες
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson's more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
 | 1876 - 844 σελίδες
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
 | 1876 - 576 σελίδες
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
 | John Forster - 1876 - 504 σελίδες
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that thev mistook for frolie. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all anthority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson's more nobly applicable both to Swift and to... | |
 | 1877 - 814 σελίδες
...observed to Boswell, "Ah! sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." It was his poverty, thus alluded to, that, about 1T30, threw him into that •tate of hypochondriacism,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 σελίδες
...seemed 'a gay and frolicsome fellow ; but ' it was bitterness,' he said, ' that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit.' ' They all feared him, however,' as one of them nearly fifty years afterwards admitted. He used to... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 σελίδες
...' a gay and frolicsome fellow ; but ' it was bitterness,' he sa id, ' that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit.' ' They all feared him, however,' as one of them nearly fifty years afterwards admitted. He used to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 σελίδες
...Adams, he said, " Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been ofteu mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable... | |
 | 1880 - 556 σελίδες
...fellow," he replied, "Ah ! sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." Though a hearty supporter of authority in principle, Johnson was distinguished through life by the... | |
 | John Wilson (reviewer.) - 1881 - 482 σελίδες
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' But there was a written sentence of Johnson more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
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Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolick. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter... 
