 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 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." While in Bedlam, Smart wrote his famous Song to David, published in 1 763. Worn out with drunkenness... | |
 | Herbert Lionel Rogers, Theodore Rutherford Harley - 1927 - 316 pages
...Johnson said : " 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." This confession is of a piece with a story told by one Wickins, a draper of Lichfield, with whom Johnson... | |
 | William Clyde DeVane - 1927 - 342 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.'11 It was during Smart's confinement in 1763 that the Song to David was written. The tradition... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1927 - 404 pages
...society; he insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with anyone. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." The poet does not seem to have been unhappy in confinement ; he dug in the garden of the madhouse,... | |
 | Sir John Vanbrugh - 1927 - 296 pages
...influence of Beau Nash. Even Johnson as late as 1763 could say: "Another charge [against Christopher Smart] was, that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it." Malone 1807. I, 350. Cf. The Confederacy II. p. 138. expeQ: await. Vanbrugh generally used the word... | |
 | Harry Kemp - 1927 - 482 pages
...insisted on people praying with him, and I 'd as lief pray with Smart as anyone else. Another charge was, he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it." If the "Hymn to David" affords any criterion, it is too bad Christopher Smart did not write all his... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1928 - 266 pages
...memorable defence of the sanity of Christopher Smart, in the course of which he said to Dr. Burney: " Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it." And, if Johnson's uncouthness, untidiness, and eccentric habits seemed to unfit him to play the part... | |
 | James Baikie - 1928 - 368 pages
...may seem not much more satisfactory than Johnson's reason for approving of Christopher Smart — " He did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it ; " but he had other reasons for esteeming him besides the old idea that dirt and godliness went together,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...to he 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....not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it.' This might be only another pitiful but familiar Grub Street story of hard times and unstable character,... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 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....not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it" (Life of Johnson i : 397). Johnson's sympathy with Smart may to some degree have been facilitated by... | |
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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. 
