 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 σελίδες
...bitterness, poverty, and seclusion. " I was miserably poor," was his report of it years afterwards, " and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit." He was as proud as he was poor, and once when some unknown friend left a pair of new shoes at his door,... | |
 | Andrew Clark - 1892 - 498 σελίδες
...account 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...literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.1 " Bishop Percy told Boswell, " The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has... | |
 | Douglas Macleane - 1897 - 580 σελίδες
...him he replied, ' 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.' His lines in the Vanity of Human Wishes reflect the lot which he had tasted : — • 'When first the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 σελίδες
...account, as given me by Dr Adams, he said, "Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which ame in, we talked of his "Journey to the Western Islands,"...of his coming away, "willing to believe the second The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me, "The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows... | |
 | Robert Farquharson Sharp - 1900 - 424 σελίδες
...violent," he said years afterwards to a friend who alluded to his college life ; "it was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." In one important direction, however, his ideas underwent a complete change while he was at college.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 σελίδες
...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." The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me, "The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows... | |
 | 1900 - 674 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... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1901 - 224 σελίδες
...might be fairly described in the words of Johnson when speaking of his own university experience : " Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness...way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded nil power and all authority." Swift learnt another and a more profitable lesson in these years. It... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 404 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.' 1 I had this anecdote from Dr. Adams, and Dr. Johnson confirmed it. Bramston, in his Man of Taste,... | |
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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. 
