 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...occubuit, oox null» secuta est. Edwards. You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in ray time to be a philosopher, but I don't know how, cheerfulness...breaking in. — Mr. Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Malone, and, indeed, all the eminent men to whom I have mentioned this, have thought... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...nox ñutía secutares). Edwards. You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time U> be a philosopher, but I don't know how, cheerfulness...breaking in. — Mr. Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Malone, and, indeed, all the eminent men to whom I have nientioued this, have thought... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 pages
...cano, Sol occubuit, nox nulla secuta est.' " EDWARDS. " You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't...— Mr. Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Courtenay, J> [This line has frequently been attributed to Dryden, when a King's Scholar at Westminster. But neither... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...cano. Sol occubuil, nox nulla secuta esU"*j EDWARDS : " You are a philosopher, Dr. .lulin -on. I have tried too, in my time, to be a philosopher ; but,...breaking in." — Mr. Burke. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Courtenav, Mr. Malone, and, indeed, all the eminent men to whom I have mentioned this, have thought... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...el eruliuit."— MILOXC. Dr. Johnson. I ha\e tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I do n't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." Mr. Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Courienay, Mr. Malone, and, indeed, all the eminent men to whom I have mentioned this, have thought... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 pages
...an excellent trait of character : — " You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson," said he : "I have tried in my time to be a philosopher ; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." * Before we come to St. Clement's, we arrive, on the lefthand side of the way, at Essex Street ; a... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...at college with him, and only accidentally met him after a separation of forty-nine years. " I have tried, too, in " my time to be a philosopher ; but...know how, cheerfulness was always " breaking in." (Sotwell, vii. 153.) The reader sees that with Oliver Goldsmith, as with the good old Oliver Edwards,... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...at college with him, aud only accidentally met him after a separation of forty-nine years. "I have tried, too, in " my time to be a philosopher ; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was alwayg " breaking in." (Jlomvll, vii. 153.) The reader sees that with Oliver Goldsmith, as with the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 368 pages
...Dr. Johnson, who had been his fellow-collegian, said to him, " You are a philosopher. I have tried in my time to be a philosopher ; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in *." This, no doubt, is the impression of many people, and especially of such as we meet under these... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 pages
...You are a philosopher,' said Mr. Edwards, an old fellowfellow-collegian, to Dr. Johnson ; ' I have tried, too, in my time, to be a philosopher, but I...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.' Boswell relates that Burke, Reynolds, and all the eminent persons to whom he repeated this remark thought... | |
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You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher ; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. 
