 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1879 - 196 pages
...fine, I'll study till I make them mine By constant meditation." Dr. Johnson once said to Boswell, " Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." He rarely lost a friend, except by death, and during this year his appointments were with the same... | |
 | Grosvenor Gallery, Frederic George Stephens - 1883 - 126 pages
...wrote:— "This room is ornamented with a number of prints, and with a whole-length picture of Lord Erroll, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me...know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse.' " On account of his magnificent appearance and lofty stature... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 pages
...then at us. Johnson uttered a conspicuously generous thing of his friend Sir Joshua, when he said, " Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." " In faults," said Goethe, " men are much alike ; in good qualities they differ." We readily perceive... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 pages
...becoming poor, unless it is fixed that when they fall below a certain standard of wealth they shall lose their peerages. We know the House of Peers have...know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse." Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 814 pages
...becoming poor, unless it is fixed that when they fall below a certain standard of wealth they shall lose their peerages. We know the House of Peers have...know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse." Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 pages
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyrick he concluded by saying, 'Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir,...quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse3.' Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest he had ever seen, — better than... | |
 | 1888 - 742 pages
...stress on both points. "Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir," he said at one time, "is the most invulnerable man 1 know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." "I know no man," he said at another time, " who has passed through life with more observation than... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 pages
...becoming poor, unless it is fixed that when they fall below a certain standard of wealth they shall lose their peerages. We know the House of Peers have...know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse." Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 pages
...contradict the populace." This room is ornamented with a number of fine prints, and with a whole length picture of Lord Errol, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. This...you would find the most difficulty how to. abuse." «»••* EARL OF ERKOL. 2<1 Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest he had ever... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 pages
...This room is ornamented with a number of fine prints, and with a whole-length picture of Ix>rd Erroi, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me...know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse." Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest... | |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse. 
