 | Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 506 pages
...society. He insisted upon people praying with him, and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with anyone else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.' That same autumn his Song to David was published in a thin quarto (1763). Smart died in the ' Rules... | |
 | Bibliographical Society (Great Britain) - 1903 - 346 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....did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it."—(Boswell's Johnson, Globe Ed., 133.) LIV.—The Poems of the late Christopher Smart, MA, Fellow... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; rom my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may...unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by 266 JOHNSON'S MODE OF LIFE [1763 people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 626 pages
...to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean...passion for it." — Johnson continued. " Mankind had a great aversion to intellectual labour : but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1909 - 1360 pages
...society. He insisted upon people praying with him, and I'd as lief pray withKit Smart as with anyone else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.' The impulse which had produced the ' Song to David ' remained with Smart to the end, but the inspiration... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 pages
...be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him, 1 and I'd as lief pray with Kit. Smart as any one else....love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable,... | |
 | JAMES S. OGILVY - 1910 - 550 pages
...used to walk to the alehouse, but he was carried back again. He insisted on people praying with him, and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....Another charge was that he did not love clean linen, and I've no passion for it." Hannah More relates her first visit to him : " Miss Reynolds told the Doctor... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...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...continued: "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...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...continued: "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him, andl 'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another...: " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant... | |
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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. 
