...of Hanover," he remarked, with humorous reference to his Jacobite proclivities ; "but I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover and drinking...amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year." Already before his wife's death he had begun to gather about him those curious objects of his charity...

...King James's health in the wine that King George gives me money to pay for. But, Sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover, and...amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year.'* I described to him an impudent fellow from Scotland, who affected to be a savage, and railed at all...

...King James's health in the wine that King George gives me money to pay for. But, Sir, I think that ogeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know It will be observed, that when giving me advice as to my travels, Dr. Johnson did not dwell upon cities,...

...piece of common sense, worthy of the political philosophy of his own Imlac. " I think," he said, " the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover and drinking King James's health all amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year." A man who is a Jacobite is expected to be romantic....

...writing somewhere between the old and the new conceptions of the writer's place in society: "I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover, and...amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year." Social Identities and C.idtural Roles "To look at cultural events," Thomas McFarland perceptively remarks,...

...King James's health in the wine that King George gives me money to pay for. But, Sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover, and...health, are amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year.19 Johnson implied that he had formerly taken 'pleasure' in doing both. Boswell, horrified, argued...

...King James's health in the wine that King George gives me money to pay for. But, Sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover, and...amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year." [81] There was here, most certainly, an affectation of more Jacobitism than he really had; and indeed...

...me to drink King James's health in the wine King George gives me money to pay for. But, Sir, I think the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover, and...health, are amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year.'50 Johnson was more straightforward about the duties of accepting patronage than most of his...

...pleasure of cursing the house of Hanover, and drinking King James's health, are amply overbalanced by the three hundred pounds a year.' There was here, most...imputed to him by the world, merely for the purpose of showing how dexterously he could repel an attack, even though he were placed in the most disadvantageous...

...King James's health in the wine that King George gives me money to pay for. But, Sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover and drinking King James's health are amply overbalanced by £^oo a year." It were well, indeed, if all pensions were so worthily bestowed. We now come to an event...