 | James Boswell - 1786 - Počet stránok 552
...see ante, ii, 75, 308, note 2, and iv. 131, note 2. Boswell wrote on June 19, 1775: — 'My father harps on my going over Scotland with a brute (think,...!), and wandering (or some such phrase) to London.' Letters of Boswell, p. 207. 1 It is remarkable that Johnson in his Life of Blackmore [ Works, viii.... | |
 | 1928 - Počet stránok 872
...better portion with her, but might have been kept from what he thinks idle and extravagant conduct. He harps on my going over Scotland with a brute (think,...such phrase) to London. In vain do I defend myself. . . . How hard is it that I am totally excluded from parental comfort." The smallness of Boswell's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1857 - Počet stránok 474
...better portion with her, but might have been kept from what he thinks idle and extravagant conduct. He harps on my going over Scotland with a brute* (think,...it that I am totally excluded from parental comfort ! I have a mind to go to Auchinleck next autumn, and try what living in a mixed stupidity of attention... | |
 | James Boswell - 1857 - Počet stránok 464
...better portion with her, but might have been kept from what he thinks idle and extravagant conduct. He harps on my going over Scotland with a brute* (think,...it that I am totally excluded from parental comfort ! I have a mind to go to Auchinleck next autumn, and try what living in a mixed stupidity of attention... | |
 | 1874 - Počet stránok 382
...better portion with her, but might have been kept from what he thinks idle and extravagant conduct. He harps on my going over Scotland with a brute *...guineas in London — does not affect him. How hard it is that I am totally excluded from parental comfort ! I have a mind to go to Auchinleck next autumn,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - Počet stránok 474
...by studious politeness (Letter to Boswell, 27 Nov. 17(3, and note). His father ' harped ' on his ' going over Scotland with a brute (think how shockingly erroneous !) ' and wandering to London. As Scott tells us (note on 'lour to Hebrides, 6 Nov. 1773), Lord Auchinleck pronounced Jamie... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - Počet stránok 512
...ambition to have a share in the great department ! . . . My father is most unhappily dissatisfied with me. He harps on m'y going over Scotland with a brute (think...erroneous !) and wandering (or some such phrase) to London ! ' Ib. p. 201. 'Aug. 12. I have had a pretty severe return this summer of that melancholy, or hypochondria,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - Počet stránok 522
.... My father is most unhappily dissatisfied with me. He harps on my going over Scotland with a bmte (think how shockingly erroneous !) and wandering (or some such phrase) to London ! ' Ib. p. 201. 'Aug. 12. I have had a pretty severe return this summer of that melancholy, or hypochondria,... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1891 - Počet stránok 320
...for three months ; nor did he so much as ask her how she did, though she is advanced in pregnancy. He harps on my going over Scotland with a brute (think how shockingly erroneous !), an air of truth. " His wife, whom in my conscience I cannot condemn for any capital bad quality,... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1891 - Počet stránok 376
...for three months ; nor did he so much as ask her how she did, though she is advanced in pregnancy. He harps on my going over Scotland with a brute (think how shockingly erroneous !), an air of truth. " His wife, whom in my conscience I cannot condemn for any capital bad quality,... | |
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I understand he fancies that if I had married another woman I might not only have had a better portion with her, but might have been kept from what he thinks idle and extravagant conduct. He harps on my going over Scotland with a brute* (think, how shockingly... 
