 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - Počet stránok 238
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - Počet stránok 508
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - Počet stránok 526
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - Počet stránok 678
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were. I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - Počet stránok 372
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Air. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustom, ed to consider conversation as a contest ; and such was his notion of Burke... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - Počet stránok 376
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - Počet stránok 472
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - Počet stránok 458
...much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls fortt all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation ,as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - Počet stránok 370
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill roe." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - Počet stránok 1108
...exertion of his own mind, that when unwell at one time, and Burke's name was mentioned, he observed, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." " Burke," added he again, " is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general... | |
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And once, when Johnson was ill, and unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me. 
