 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 ページ
...stoop to and Aetat.45.] Warburtoris compliments. 305 and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit...humble, ' Most obedient servant, ' SAM. JOHNSON'.' ' While this was the talk of the town, (says Dr. Adams, in a letter to me) I happened to visit Dr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 ページ
...giddiness, and impenetrable deafness; I could not stoop to and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit...humble, ' Most obedient servant, ' SAM. JOHNSON'.' ' While this was the talk of the town, (says Dr. Adams, in a letter to me) I happened to visit Dr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 ページ
...so elegantly expressed by niy friend Mr. Malone, in his Prologue to Mr. Jephson's tragedy of JULIA : if less be possible, with less; for I have been long...most humble " Most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON." * " While this was the talk of the town, (says Dr. Adams, in a letter to me) I happened to visit Dr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 ページ
...solitary, and cannot impart it ; s till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit...humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON."' " While this was the talk of the town, (says Dr. Adams, in a letter to me) I happened to visit Dr.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 ページ
...myself. " Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, 1 shall not be disappointed though I should conclude...with his accustomed policy, appeared to treat the matVOL. IT. Z ter with the most perfect indifference, and after reading the letter to Mr. Dodsley,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 ページ
...wak«ned from that dream of hope, iu which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lprd, " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,...with his accustomed policy, appeared to treat the matVOL. IT. a ter with the most perfect indifference, and after reading the letter to Mr. Dodsley,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 ページ
...by whatever appearance of neglect, dissolved a connexion which might have been mutually honourable* to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed...humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON." * And yet, if he meant Dr. Johnson by the subjoined portrait, how could he without criminal dissimulation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 ページ
...I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dreurn of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much...humble " Most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON."§ JThe following note is subjoined by Mr. Langten. "Dr. Johnson, when be gave me this copy of his letter,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 ページ
...that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. ' Having carried on my work thns far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning,...most humble " Most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON. "§ jThe following note is subjoined by Mr. Langton. " Dr. Johnson, when be gave me this copy of his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 ページ
...solitary, and cannot impart it ; ' till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit...humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON."* 1 In this passage Dr. Johnson evidently alludes to the loss of his wife. We find the same tender recollection... | |
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Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted... 
