 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 pages
...author. A stronger contrast of characters could not 1 The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. ' to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was Vol. L, p. 1 15-— Editor. together ; the nobleman, celebrated for his wit, and all the graces of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 454 pages
...Library Osbome had bought How Johnson rebuked the bookseller : " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and 1 beat him. But it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber." Business letters to Cave I Contributions to The Gentleman's Magazine . . . 1 A Latin Ode of Johnson's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 pages
...shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber."" A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have no... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...his shop with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber." A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. I have no... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself "Sir, he was impertinent to me and I beat him. But it was not ш his shop; it was ш my own chamber." A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not... | |
 | 1892 - 448 pages
...renown as having been the field of battle. For the Doctor is at pains to be precise upon the matter : " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber." But, in spite of this, the neighbourhood would furnish more than one shrine for worship to the literary... | |
 | James Boswell - 1911 - 672 pages
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 | 1892 - 396 pages
...renown as having been the field of battle. For the Doctor is at pains to be precise upon the matter : " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber." But, in spite of this, the neighbourhood would furnish more than one shrine for worship to the literary... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1895 - 488 pages
...down in his shop with a folio, and put his foot on his neck. Johnson gave Boswell the true version : ' Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber ' (BOSWELL, ed. Croker, pp.46, 613). The Rev. AM Toplady (Memoirs, by W. Winters, p. 46) says that... | |
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It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. "Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him.... 
