 Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, "that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Página 366por James Boswell - 1907Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 páginas
...smiling, and rolling himself about, " that is because, dearest, you 're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal...custom, had circulated the bottle very freely. Lord Graham and I went together to Miss Monckton's, where I certainly was in extraordinary spirits, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 páginas
...smiling, and rolling himself about, " that is because, dearest, you 're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal...agreeable party; and his grace, according to his usual ciistom, had circulated the bottle very freely. Lord Graham and I went together to Miss Monckton's,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 páginas
...because, dearest, you 're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, \vith equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought...custom, had circulated the bottle very freely. Lord Graham and I went together to Miss Monckton's, where I certainly was in extraordinary spirits, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 páginas
...smiling, and rolling himself about, " that is because, dearest, yon 're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal...truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, 1 certainly should not have said it." Another evening Johnson's kind indulgence towards me had a pretty... | |
 | 1840 - 954 páginas
...because, dearest, you're a dunce.' When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, \vith equal truth and politeness, ' Madam ! if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' " Poor Bozzy's indiscretion at her house, after having enjoyed too freely the hospitality of the Duke... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1846 - 682 páginas
...dunce.' — When she VOL. XIX. Y some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal troth and politeness, ' Madam ! if I had thought so, I certainly should not hare said it.' " Poor Bozzy's indiscretion at her house, after having enjoyed too freely the hospitality... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 páginas
...smiling and rolling himself about, " that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal...thought so, I certainly should not have said it." Yet other eminent men thought well of Sterne. Of the celebrated father of Lord Chancellor Bathurst,... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 páginas
...and rolling himself about, " that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterward mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and...thought so, I certainly should not have said it." anecdote* from Sterne's own hand. " He came up to me one day," he says, " as I was at the Prince of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 páginas
...smiling, and rolling himself about, "that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal...truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, 1 certainly should not have said it." Another evening Johnson's kind indulgence towards me had a pretty... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...smiling, and rolling himself about — ' that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce.' When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal...thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' " — Ibid. in possession of the cynical old curate of Meudon,1 — the 1 A passage or two from Sterne's... | |
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