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" Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of... "
The life of Samuel Johnson - Page 27
by James Boswell - 1820
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 328 pages
...early; early ; he was one of the firft friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at Icsft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was...his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from...
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Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 476 pages
...very early $ he was one of the firil friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at leaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was...his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 456 pages
...very early; he ivas one of the firft friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at leaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was...received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with afi the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...very early ; he was one of the firft friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at leaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was...his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...literature procured me, and I hope that at feaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of aft advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never...Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his patty; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he end i: red me. He had...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

John Hawkins - 1787 - 632 pages
...early ; he was one of the firft friends that ' literature procured me ; and, I hope that, at leaft, ' my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. ' ' He...not * a boy ; yet, he never received my notions with con* tempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and f malevolence of his party ; yet difference of...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 642 pages
...early \ he was one of the firft friends that ' literature procured me j and, I hope that, at leaft^ c my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. ' He was...not * a boy; yet, he never received my notions with con1 tempt. He was a whigy with all the virulence and 1 malevolence of his party ; yet difference of...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

John Hawkins - 1787 - 636 pages
...early; he was one of the firft friends that c literature procured me ; and, 1 hope that, at icaft, * my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. « He was of an advanced age, and I was only not ' a boy i yet, he never received my notions with con' tempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and. «...
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The life of Dr. Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 640 pages
...literature procured me ; and, I hope that, at leaft, * my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. c He was of an advanced age, and I was only not * a boy; yet, he never received my notions with con1 tempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and c malevolence of his party; yet difference of...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

John Hawkins - 1787 - 652 pages
...of an advanced age, and I was only not ' a boy; yet, he never received my notions with con' tempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and * malevolence...his party; yet difference of opinion * did not keep us apart : I honoured him, and he en.' dured me. ' He had mingled with the gay world, without ' exemption...
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