 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - Počet stránok 238
...' There is no arguing with him,' said Goldsmith, alluding to a speech in one of Gibber's plays ; ' for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the but end of it.' He had accustomed himself to such accuracy in common conversation, that he at all times... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - Počet stránok 496
...pressed in serious disputation. Goldsmith, I remember, to retaliate for many a severe defeat whjeh he has suffered from him, applied to him a lively...his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the but end of it." WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6. After a sufficiency of sleep, we assembled at breakfast. We were... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - Počet stránok 532
...exemplified what Goldsmith said of him, with the aid of a very witty image from one of Gibber's Comedies: " There is no arguing with Johnson : for if his pistol...fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it," Another was this: when a gentleman of eminence in the literary world was violently censured for attacking... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - Počet stránok 562
...exemplified what Goldsmith said of him, with the aid of a very witty image from one of (Jibber's Comedies : " There is no arguing with Johnson : for if his pistol...fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." Another was this : when a gentleman of eminence in the literary world was violently censured for attacking... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - Počet stránok 508
...him in the witty words of one of Gibber's comedies : " There is no arguing with Johnson ; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." He turned to the gentleman, " Well, Sir, go to Dominicetti, and get thyself fumigated ; but be sure... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - Počet stránok 514
...him in the witty words of one of Cibber's comedies : *' There is no arguing with Johnson ; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end ^BuT Dominicetti, and get thyself fumigated; but be sure »769. of it." He turned to the gentleman,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - Počet stránok 210
...conquest. " There is no arguing with him," said Goldsmith, alluding to a speech in one of Gibber's plays, " for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." He had accustomed himself to such accuracy in common conversation, that he at all times delivered himself... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - Počet stránok 492
...mere trifles, to get the better of his antagonist, by placing him in a ludicrous view. I have known him sometimes use the same art, when hard pressed...for, if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down ivilh the but end of it." WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6. After a sufficiency of sleep, we assembled at breakfast.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - Počet stránok 484
...many a severe defeat which he has suffered from him, applied to him a lively saying in one of Cibber's comedies, which puts this part of his character in...his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the but end of it." •WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6. After a sufficiency of sleep, we assembled at breakfast. We... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - Počet stránok 154
...conquest. 'There is no arguing with him,' said Goldsmith, alluding to a speech in one of Gibber's plays; 'for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.' He had accustomed himself to such accuracy in common conversation, that he at all times delivered himself... | |
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There is no arguing with Johnson; for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. 
