 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...was proper. Beauclerk had fuch a propenfity to fatire, that at one time Johnfon faid to him, " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...often given me pain, not from the power of what you faid, but from feeing your intention." At another time applying to him, with a flight alteration, a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pages
...fhot him." Mr. Beauclerk had fuch a propenfity to fatire, that at one time Johnfon faid to him, " You. never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...often given me pain, not from the power of what you faid, but from feeing your intention." At another time applying to him, with a flight alteration, a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...was proper. Beauclerk had such a propensity to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, ' You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...him, with a slight alteration, a line of Pope, he 'Thy love of folly, and thy scorn of fools — * Every thing thou dost shews the one, and every thing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...\vиs proper. Beaucler.k had such a propensity to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...often given me pain, not from the power of what you saitl, but from seeing your intention." At another time applying to him, witti a slight alteration,... | |
 | 1844 - 814 pages
...from my seeing the intention." At another'tlme, applying to him that line of Pope's, slightly altered, he said — " ' Thy love of folly, and thy scorn of fools ; ' every thing you do shows the one, and every tiiing you say the other." Another rather less intelligible rebuke... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pages
...was proper. Beauclerk had snch a propensity to satire, that at one time Johnsmi said to him, " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...folly, and thy scorn of fools — Every thing thou dost shows the one, and every thing thou sayest the other." At another time, he said to him, " Thy body... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pages
...at one time Johnson said to him, " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain : ami you have often given me pain, not from the power of...line of Pope, he said, " Thy love of folly, and thy seorn of fools—- Every thing thou dost shows the one, and every thing thou sayest the other." At... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...but with intention to "ive nain : and von have often givcn ./ j me pum, not from the power ofwh.it you said, but from seeing your intention." At another...of fools — Every thing thou dost shews the one, andeverv thing thou say'st the other." At another time he said to him, "Thy ho.ly is all vice, an.l... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 372 pages
...was proper. Beanclerk had such a propensity to satire, that at one time Johuson said to him, " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...have often given me pain, not from the power of what yon said, but from seeing your intention." At another time, applying to him, with a slight alteration,... | |
 | 1821 - 372 pages
...was proper. Beauclerk had such a propensity to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain...with a slight alteration, a line of Pope, he said, o " Thy love of folly, and Uiy scorn of fools — Every thing thou dost shows the one, and every thing... | |
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You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention. 
