 | 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... | |
 | Richard H. Schmidt - 2002 - 364 pages
...noxious 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 linen; and I have no passion for it. from Boswell's Life of Johnson, in defense of the poet Christopher Smart, who had been confined to... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...noxious 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 linen; and I have no passion for it." Smart's reputation has been strongest in the Twentieth Century. His 'Song to David', published in 1763... | |
 | William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd - 2003 - 352 pages
...enthusiast, Smart was harmless. Smart had prayed in public, but Td as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else; another charge was that he did not love clean linen, and I have no passion for it.'27 The nervous jocularity betrays Johnson's lurking dread that, a misfit himself, one day it would... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 pages
...was of him that Johnson declared: He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief (willingly) pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love dean linen; and I have no passion for />.''1 According to Boswell, these remarks were made to Charles... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 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." [23] Johnson continued. "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge... | |
 | Lori Branch - 2006 - 364 pages
...His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as life pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge...not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it. 80 Regardless of such assertions of his relative sanity, beginning in May 1757 Smart was incarcerated... | |
 | Paul Cavill, Heather Ward - 2007 - 515 pages
...him: and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else. Another charge [of madness against Smart] was that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it. [1763, NA1 p. 2765] Here is Johnson expressing in his clear and authoritative fashion things that are... | |
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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. 
