| James Boswell - 1820 - 550 Seiten
...Sir? Pray what have you heard ? — I have heard Ossian, Oscar, and every one of them. Johnson said of Chatterton, This is the most extraordinary young...is wonderful how the whelp has written such things. We were by no means pleased with our inn at Bristol. Let us see now, (•said I,) how we should describe... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 384 Seiten
...themselves; but he has not only loaded them with a name, but has made them carry double." Johnson said of Chatterton, " This is the most extraordinary young...wonderful how the whelp has written such things." • Dr. Johnson said to Boswell, " Percy, sir, was angry with me for laughing at the Sugar-cane ; for... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 372 Seiten
...themselves ; but he has not only loaded them with a name, but has made them carry double." Johnson said of Chatterton, " This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered niy knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things." • Dr. Johnson said to Boswell,... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 Seiten
...raillery. " Describe it, sir ?—Why, it was so bad that Boswell wished to be in Scotland!" Johnson said of Chatterton, " This is the most extraordinary young...wonderful how the whelp has written such things." After Dr. Johnson's return to London, I was several times with him at his house, where I occasionally... | |
| 1821 - 372 Seiten
...themselves ; but he has not only loaded them with a name, but has made them carry double." Johnson said of Chatterton, " This is the most extraordinary young...wonderful how the whelp has written such things." • Dr. Johnson said to Boswell, " Percy, sir, was angry with me for laughing at the Sugar-cane ; for... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 458 Seiten
...Pray what have you heard ?" — " I have heard Ossian, Oscar, and every one of them." Johnson said of Chatterton, " This is the most extraordinary young...wonderful how the whelp has written such things." We were by no means pleased with our inn at Bristol. " Let us see now, (said J,) how we should describe... | |
| Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 Seiten
...entitled ' Respublicse,' which are very well done, were a bookseller's work." Of Chatterton, he said, " This is the most extraordinary young man that has...wonderful how the whelp has written such things." Speaking of the ancient poets, he observed, " Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 416 Seiten
...Pray what have you heard ?" — " I have heard Ossian, Oscar, and every one of them." Johnson said of Chatterton, "This is the most extraordinary young...wonderful how the whelp has written such things." We were by no means pleased with our inn at Bristol. " Let us see now," said I, " how we should describe... | |
| James Boswell - 1827 - 622 Seiten
...Pray, what have you heard ?" — " I have heard Ossian, Oscar, and every one of them." Johnson said «. We all love Beattie. Mrs. '1'hrale »ays, if...Beattie. He sunk upon us* that he • "TO JAMES BOBWII. We were by no means pleased with our inn at Bristol. " 1л1 us see now, (said I,) * Mr. Tyrwhitt, Mr.... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 586 Seiten
...you, sir? Pray what have you heard?" " I have heard Ossian, Oscar, and everyone <>ftJiem" Johnson said of Chatterton, " This is the most extraordinary young...encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has Hawk, written such things." [And of the merit of the P. 208. poems admitted on both sides of the controversy,... | |
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