...fhop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The fimple truth I had from Johnfon himfelf. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his fhop : it was in my own chamber." A very diligent obferver may trace him where we fhould not eafily...

...embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself....was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber'.' A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have no...

...embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself....it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber." A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have no...

...embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself....him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber5.' A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found....

...with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. Johnson himself relates it differently to Mr. Boswell, ' Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him : but...it was not in his shop, it was in my own chamber.' This anecdote has been told to prove Johnson's ferocity ; but the matter has been palliated by the...

...neck. When Mr Boswell, many years afterwards, inquired at himself concerning the fact, Johnson said, " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat " him; but...not in his shop — it was in *' my own chamber." The quarrel did not stop the work, as not only the proposals for printing the catalogue after it was...

...edition, and written, as appears, by * Mr. Bofwcll fays, " The fun pie truth I had from Johnfon himfolf. ' Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his ill op : it was in my own chamber.' " C. ** a man of parts and genius, the reft are ab" folutely below...

...is, in general, a true observation ; and was never more apparent than in the pre* Mr. Boswel! says, " The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. ' Sir, he was impertinent to me, and t beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own sent narrative. Every aera of Johnson's life...

...embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself....it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber." A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have no...

...part is true, and part without foundation; when the story was mentioned to Johnson, he answered, " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop; it was in my own chamber."* That a man of such ability and comprehension o( intellect as was Johnson, should, from the compulsion...