 I was disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 343by James Boswell - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 492 pages
...went into the market at the time of business, uncovered my head, and stood with it bare, for an hour, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition T stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." Who does not figure to himself this spectacle, amid... | |
 | Edward Marston - 1902 - 184 pages
...father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." In Dr. Johnson's account of his early life I find a scrap about his father which does not indicate... | |
 | Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1903 - 360 pages
...the last year of his life, " was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago, I desired to atone for this fault;...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." It was the only instance of such disobedience that he could recall; and in general, in his behaviour... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1906 - 746 pages
...father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory" (Boswell's Life of Johnson, Croker's edition, 1831, vol. v. P- 288>J 3 [The reference is to some verses... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1906 - 752 pages
...father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault...to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a cousiderable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 344 pages
...Pride was the source of that refusal, and CTTUXET1H MAHKKT-FLACZ. the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault...to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a Dr. •hich, tnder the corporation of Lichfield, in the year 1767, had for the merits and learning... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 pages
...father to Uttoxeter-market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago, I desired to atone for this fault...father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, aijd I hope the penance was expiatory.' 'I told him (says Miss Seward) in one of my latest visits to... | |
 | Samuel Henderson Virgin - 1905 - 304 pages
...went into the market at the time of business, uncovered my head and stood with it bare for an hour on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood there and I hope the penance was expiatory." Thomas Carlyle says of this event : "The picture of Samuel... | |
 | Algernon Graves - 1906 - 416 pages
...father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault:...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." — Boswell. 13, Holland Street, Kensington. 1882. 15 Low tide — Coast of Normandy. 33 A grey afternoon... | |
 | 1901 - 616 pages
...of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago, I desired to atone for my fault ; I went to Uttoxeter, in very bad weather,...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." So on that spot, where he stood self-shriven,' was placed this structure, which appeals more to the... | |
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