 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. ' He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He...endured me. 'He had mingled with the gay world without 1 Mr. Warton Informs me that this early friend of Johnson was entered a Commoner of Trinity College,... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. ' He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, ought together. — EOSWKLL. which have been since transferred to me. Sir John Hawkins' kcep us apart; I honoured him, and he endured me. 'He had mingled with the gay world without 1 Mr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all • Mr. Warton informs me, " that this early friend of Johnson was entered a Commoner of Trinity College,... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - London (England) - 1877 - 432 pages
...The worst he could say of the Gilbert Walmsley, of Lichfield, whom he loved and honoured, was that ' he was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party.' Boswell's father pelted Johnson with the term which Johnson applied to Panting, as one of laudation,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 pages
...not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence Mid malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion...cultivation of his mind. His belief of revelation waa unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. " His... | |
 | Hugh Fraser Campbell - English language - 1883 - 128 pages
...circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself. (5. ) He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption...neglected the cultivation of his mind. His belief of Eevelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular and then pious.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1885 - 858 pages
...least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only yet a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He...yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honored him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices... | |
 | 1885 - 844 pages
...least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only yet a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He...yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honored him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. ' He was of an advanced age, and I was only yet a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He...a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of hie party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. ' He... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. ' He was of an advanced age, and I was only yet a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with nil the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I... | |
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Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of... 
