 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...him (also falling on his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place) ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.' He was afterwards released from his confinement; but, in consequence of his intemperate habits, his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 pages
...ever manifested in his life. ' He insisted,' said Dr. Johnson, ' on people praying with him ; and I 'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another...love clean linen : and I have no passion for it.' His insanity was favourable to his poetic powers, for by far the finest lines he composed made part... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...sanest he ever manifested in his life. " He insisted," said Dr. Johnson, " on people praying with him ; t of us, and yet the very marrow of our life, which...and rewards us by no arbitrary external penalties, 1 have no passion for it." His insanity was favorable to his poetic powers, for by far the finest lines... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...be shut up. His infirmities were " not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying " with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one " else....charge was, that he did not love clean " linen ; and, sir, I have no passion for it." 1764. Their exertions were successful. Smart was again at Mt.s6. iarge... | |
 | William Fordyce - 1857 - 730 pages
...noxious to society : he insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else : another charge was, that he did not love clean linen, and I have no passion for it. — On another occasion, Johnson says, " I wrote for some months in the Universal Visitor, for poor... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...him (also falling on his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place) ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.' He was afterwards released from his confinement ; but, in consequence of his intemperate habits, his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charg^.was, that he did not love clean linen : and I have no passion for it." Johnson continued. "... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 406 pages
...and had his victuals sent to him. Talking of the symptoms of Christopher Smart's madness, he said, " Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." His deficiency in this respect seems to have made a lasting impression on his hostess. Referring to... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 pages
...and had his victuals sent to him. Talking of the symptoms of Christopher Smart's madness, he said, "Another charge was that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it." His deficiency in this respect seems to have made a lasting impression on his hostess. Referring to... | |
 | Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.' " From another conversation of Dr. Johnson's, it would seem, according to Mr. Croker's very legitimate... | |
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I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it. 
