 | English literature - 1857 - 610 pages
...way from Grantham northwards, he has another flattering adventure, on which he generalises : — ' I got into the fly at Buckden, and had a very good...interests most people at first sight in my favour ? ' , In his ' Tour to the Hebrides,' which was revised by Dr. Johnson, he thus records an indelible... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1920 - 968 pages
...neatly (May 22, 1776)." So self-enamoured that he could write : — " I got into the fly at Buckden .... An agreeable young widow nursed me, and supported...interests most people at first sight in my favour? (May 8, 1779)." 3. That Boswell deliberately suppressed conversations and thereby misled subsequent... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1857 - 672 pages
...records his having " had a very good journey" in a fly, and in his most genuine style proceeds to say : " An agreeable young widow nursed me, and supported...interests most people at first sight in my favour ?" This is a question often put by our fascinating1 hero. His obtrusive egotism, his mania for notoriety,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 598 pages
...agreeable young widow in the coach nursed nursed his lame foot on her knee, he triumphantly subjoins, 'Ami not fortunate in having something about me that interests most people at first sight in my favour ? ' His chief defect as a companion was, as he acknowledges, that he talked at random, and in the exuberance... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...agreeable young widow in the coach nursed his lame foot on her knee, he triumphantly subjoins, 'Ami not fortunate in having something about me that interests most people at first sight in my favour? ' His chief defect as a companion was, as he acknowledges, that he talked at random, and in the exuberance... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - Authors - 1859 - 326 pages
...lame foot, is fortunate in being nursed by an agreeable young widow. " Am I not fortunate," he says, " in having something about me that interests most people at first sight in my favour 1 " Thereupon he is to rest at Newcastle till Monday, when he hopes to get home to his wife and children,... | |
 | 1874 - 382 pages
...struggling through cares and fatigues ; but let us hope for gleams of joy here, and a blaze hereafter. ... I got into the fly at Buckden, and had a very good...interests most people at first sight in my favour ? . . . You ask me about Lowth's ' Isaiah.' I never once heard it mentioned till I asked Dr. Johnson... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - English literature - 1915 - 346 pages
...Johnson's permanent residents. " Am I not fortunate," Boswell once wrote to Temple (8 May 1779), " in having something about me that interests most people at first sight in my favour ? " So it proved. " Come to me as often as you can," said Johnson to him on 1 3 June; and again on... | |
 | Clive Bell - Art - 1918 - 280 pages
...large apartment, and the convenience and state of a coach." It was absurd of him, no doubt, to say, " Am I not fortunate in having something about me that...interests most people at first sight in my favour ? " but it seems to have been near the truth. " I am really the great man now. I have had David Hume... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1925 - 406 pages
...their control. "Am I not fortunate," he writes to Sir William Temple, not more than half -ironical, "in having something about me that interests most people at first sight in my favor? " On this occasion a young widow in the fly at Buckden had supported his lame foot on her knee.... | |
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Buckden," he writes to a friend, "and had a very good journey. An agreeable young widow nursed me and supported my lame foot on her knee. Am I not fortunate in having something about me that interests most people at first sight in my favour? 
