 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 páginas
...gentlemen that he would alter th« epitaph in any manner they pleased as to the sense of it ; but be would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English. epitaph: and observing Dr. Wartoirs name among the circumscribers, said to Sir Joshua, ' I wonder that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 páginas
...gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription. " I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 páginas
...gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it : but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. I consider thin Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 520 páginas
...gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but hewould never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription. " I consider this Round liobin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 páginas
...confounded the cow with the deer. alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription . " I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 páginas
...has confounded the cow with the deer. Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription. " I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving1, as it marks, in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 páginas
...an English epitaph on an English author. His reply was, in the genuine spirit of an old scholar, " he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster abbey with an English inscription." One of his arguments, in favour of a common learned language, was ludicrously cogeut : " Consider,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 páginas
...an English epitaph on an English author. His reply was, in the genuine spirit of an old scholar, " he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster abbey with an English inscription." One of his arguments, in favour of a common learned language, was ludicrously cogeut : " Consider,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 páginas
...an English epitaph on an English author. His reply was, in the genuine spirit of an old scholar, " he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster abbey with an English inscription." One of his arguments, in favour of a common learned language, was ludicrously cogent : " Consider,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 páginas
...an English epitaph on an English author. His reply was, in the genuine spirit of an old scholar, " he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster abbey with an English inscription." One of his arguments, in favour of a common learned language, was ludicrously cogeut : " Consider,... | |
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Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription. 
