 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 pages
...description. While he was loudly praising the lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem : —a poem on what?"—JOHNSON (with a disdainful...while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Johnson said that he considered the description of the temple m Congreve's " Mourning Bride" the finest... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem : —a poem on what? "—JOHNSON' (with a disdainful look): " Why, on dunces. It was...while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Johnson said that he considered the description of the temple in Congreve's " Mourning Bride" the finest... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 pages
...company ventured to say, "Too fine for such a poem : a poem on what?" Johnson (with a disdainful air) : "Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! " ' — Boswell's Johnson, October 16, 1769. him and tossed him, he often spoke of him in a very... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 pages
...company ventured to say, "Too fine for such a poem : a poem on what?" Johnson (with a disdainful air) : "Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! " ' — Boswell's Johnson, October 1 6, 1769. him and tossed him, he often spoke of him in a very... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem — a poem on what ?" Johnson (with a disdainful look) : " Why, on dunces. It was...while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." — Boswell. Johnson having argued for some time with a pertinacious gentleman, his opponent, who had... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...those lines, one of the company ventured to say," Too fine for such a poem—a poem on what ?" Johnson (with a disdainful look): " Why, on dunces. It was...not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits."—Boswell. Johnson having argued for some time with a pertinacious gentleman, his opponent,... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pages
...ventured to say that they were ' ' too fine for such a poem — a poem on what?" " Why," said Johnson, " on dunces! It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! " Johnson previously uttered a criticism which has led some people to think that he had a touch of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...lines, one of the company ventured to say, "Too fine for such a poem:—a poem on what? " JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,) " Why, on dunces. It was...a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff noted, as a peculiar circumstance, that Pope's fame was higher when he was alive than it was then.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 pages
...lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem : — a poem on what?" JOHNSON (with a disdainful look), "Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, 1 It is due to Boswell's character for minute accuracy to state that Mr. Prior has found the tailor's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 722 pages
...lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem : — a poem on what ? " JOHNSON (with a disdainful look), " Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, 1 It is due to Boswell's character for minute accuracy to state that Mr. Prior has found the tailor's... | |
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JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,) ' Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits. 
