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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. "
The Table Talk of John Selden - Page 22
by John Selden - 1818 - 180 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...to fatire, that at one time Johnfon faid to him, " 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 faid, but from feeing your intention." At another time applying to him, with a flight alteration, a...
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Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pages
...to fatire, that at one time Johnfon faid to him, " 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 faid, but from feeing your intention." At another time applying to him, with a flight alteration, a...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, ' You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not...the other.' At another time he said to him, ' Thy men that could possibly exist.' Lord Charlemont's Z.*/,r, i. 210. Hawkins writes (Life, p. 422) that...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, ' You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not...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...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him,." You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not...thing thou dost shews the one, and every thing thou say'sl the other." At another time, he said to him, " Thy body is all vice, and thy mind all virtue."...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, " 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 saitl, but from seeing your intention." At another time applying to him, witti a slight alteration,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 55

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...
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Johnsoniana..

James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pages
...to satire, that at one time Johnsmi said to him, " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain : and you have often given me pain, not...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...
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Johnsoniana..

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...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

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...
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