 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 σελίδες
...was proper. Beauclerk had such a propensity to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, " 1'ou never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...slight alteration, a line of Pope, he said, — " Thy lore of folly, and thy «corn of fools ;«— Every thing thou dost shows the one, and every thing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 σελίδες
...darted shafts on every side, was not always tolerated by Johnson. " Sir," said he on one occasion, "you never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...often given me pain, not from the power of what you have said, but from seeing your intention." When it was at first proposed to enroll Goldsmith among... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 σελίδες
...and is severely rebuked by Johnson, who will suffer no one but himself to assail his protege. " Sir, you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention." But there is neither bitterness nor jealousy in the hearts of those friends — least of all, in those... | |
 | 1871 - 596 σελίδες
...the Queen. Dr. Johnson said to an ill-natured friend : " You never open your mouth but (' with the intention to give pain ; and you have often given...of what you said, but from seeing your intention.". With regard to the circumstances to which I have referred, I am afraid that both the power and the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 σελίδες
...was proper. Beauclerk had such a propensity to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, * You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...said, ' Thy love of folly, and thy scorn of fools. Everything thou dost shows the one, and everything thou say'st the other.' At another time be said... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 σελίδες
...was proper. Beauelerk had such a propensity to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, ' You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...pain, not from the power of what you said, but from sceing your intention.' At another time, applying to him, with a slight alteration, a line of Pope,... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 σελίδες
...is one of the sharp rebukes :—Beauclerk indulged freely in satire, and was thus reproved : " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain;...often given me pain, not from the power of what you have said, but from seeing your intention." Here are two of the laughing reprovals:—Johnson once... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 σελίδες
...is one of the sharp rebukes : — Beauclerk indulged freely in satire, and was thus reproved : " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...often given me pain, not from the power of what you have said, but from seeing your intention." Here are two of the laughing reprovals : — Johnson once... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 σελίδες
...fast, in the modern slang sense, as well as in the older and graver one, — that he never opened his mouth but with intention to give pain ; " and you have often given me pain," the Doctor added, " not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention." Y Of Johnson... | |
 | John Forster - 1877 - 468 σελίδες
...worse by pushing rudely at his friend. " Sir," he said to him after one of his malicious sallies, " you never open your mouth but with " intention to give...from the power of what you said, but from seeing your inten" tion."* The habit was doubtless an evil one, and few suffered from it so much as Goldsmith.... | |
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You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention. 
