 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 σελίδες
...Adams, he said, 'Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolick. without that attention to its religious duties which Christianity requires ; ' The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me, ' The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 σελίδες
...gay and frolicsome fellow," he replied : " Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and...wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority." In his poverty he remained proud ; and when a new pair of shoes was placed at his door by some benevolent... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 σελίδες
...gay and frolicsome fellow," he replied : •" Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and...wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority." In his poverty he remained proud; and when a new pair of shoes was placed at his door by some benevolent... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1908 - 224 σελίδες
...gay and frolicsome fellow," he replied, " Ah ! sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and...thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so .1 disregarded all power and all authority." Though a hearty supporter of authority in principle, Johnson... | |
 | Francis Henry Gribble - 1910 - 380 σελίδες
...account, he said : ' Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for fro lick. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' " Very likely, however, that recollection was coloured by later memories of the struggle for bread... | |
 | 1911 - 492 σελίδες
...comment on this ? ' 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...literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and authority.' Sad words and strong words, but words which could never have been uttered by the rainbow-coloured... | |
 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 σελίδες
...account as given me by Dr. Adams he said, "Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and...wit, so I disregarded all power and all authority." — Vol. I, p. 45. 1731 — -ffit. 22 The res angusta domi prevented him from having the advantage... | |
 | Frederick Monroe Tisdel - 1913 - 392 σελίδες
...fellow," he himself said long afterwards: "Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and...literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and authority." Does poverty and distress usually make people servile ? PARAGRAPH 10. This account of literature... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 σελίδες
...account as given me by Dr. Adams, he said, "Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and...wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority." I have, from the information of Dr. Taylor, a very strong instance of that rigid honesty which he ever... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 σελίδες
...Dr Adams, he said '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...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' " Johnson was too poor to complete his course of study and left Oxford in 1731 without the degree of... | |
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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 by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority. 
