...that he is nothing of any thing." At a late period of his life he faid to Sir Jolhua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will foon find himfelf left alone. A man, Sir, fhould keep his friendfhip in conjlant repair." During a...

...subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, ' If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu d' Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary;...

...subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 'If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu d' Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary:...

...subsequent period of his Life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, *' If a man does not make new acquaintance as he' advances...literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu d' Esprit upon the following passage • in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the...

...subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, ' If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...friendship in constant repair.' The celebrated Mr. Wilkcs, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his, but who was ever eminent for literature...

...that he is nothing of any thing." At a late period of his life he said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.'' During a visit at Oxford, the following conversation passed between the Doctor and Mr. Boswell on the...

...subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jcu iГ Esprit upon the following passage in hie Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary...

...that he is nothing of any thing." At a late period of his life he said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...should -keep his friendship in constant repair.''' During a visit at Oxford, the following conversation passed between the Doctor and Mr. Boswell on the...

...part of Johnson, for having, in a degree, forced himself into an intimacy ; when Johnson said, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone: a man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." 1758. jETAT. 34. FROM a letter of...

...that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho, in. Ovid." * He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair." Amid the cokl obscurity of Johnson's early life, there...