 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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." — Baswell's Life. gave strict heed to it, the wages of sin. In time, Johnson hud opportunity of looking... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 80 pages
...in Gray's Inn, satirized in the Dunciad (Book II. 167). " He was impertinent to me," said Johnson, " and I beat him. But it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber." society so utterly unlike all that he had ever seen, frequently crossed his mind. But it is not probable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 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...it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber.' " — Boswell. " There is nothing to tell, dearest lady, but that he was insolent and I beat him, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 136 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.' "—Boswell. -which I should never have done. ... I have beat many a fellow, but the rest had the wit... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1896 - 270 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.' " May it not be the case that Mr. Irving's treasure is this great historic folio ? In the good old... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 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...it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber." ' Life, i. 154. ' The identical book with which Johnson knocked down Osborne (Biblia Grseca Septuaginta,... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1897 - 342 pages
...bookseller with a fo ' JOHNSON (hastily) : ' Sir, it was not so. The story is a ridiculous fable. The fellow was impertinent to me, and I beat him; but it was not with a folio. I had too much respect for books.' THE AUTHOR : ' But you have spoken against booksellers.'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 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...it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber'" (Boswell, p. 49). Page 69, 1. 5. [fate of Cassandra. Cassandra was daughter of Priam, King of Troy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 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 it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber ' " (Boswell, p. 49). Page 69, 1. 5. [fate of Cassandra. Cassandra was daughter of Priam, King of Troy... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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...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... | |
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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.... 
