 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 pages
...afraid, a Deist, say, that he did not believe there were, in all England, above two hundred infidels." He was pleased to say, " If you come to settle here,...his private register this evening is thus marked, " Boswell sat with me till night; we had some serious talk."* It also appears from the same record,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 pages
...in preferring the quietness of intimate talk. ' That is the happiest conversation,' said Johnson, ' where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.' But that is not the kind of conversation which Boswell has most fully recorded. The place of his meeting... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 pages
...half asleep until the remark which aroused him came. "That is the happiest conversation," he said, " where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments," and he complained that John Wesley was never sufficiently at leisure to fold his legs and converse... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1915 - 332 pages
...done. Johnson had at times so serene a manner that, in an affable moment, he declared to Boswell that 'that is the happiest conversation where there is...vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments.' Such is the general strain of his conversation at Streatham, as recorded by Miss Burney.1 Here we detect... | |
 | William Hale White - 1915 - 342 pages
...Professor Raleigh observes, was not the talk for which he most cared. He declared that to be — ' the happiest conversation where there is no competition,...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments." This was not the sort of conversation which best suited Boswell, and he had not much chance of hearing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 pages
...this being mentioned to Mr. Fitzherbert. he observed, "It is not every man that can carry a bon-mot." He was pleased to say, "If you come to settle here,...his private register this evening is thus marked, "Boswell sat with me till night; we had some serious talk." It also appears from the same record, that... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pages
...emphatically: — he could not be prevailed upon, even by his dearest friends, to tell." 24. He [Johnson] was pleased to say, "If you come to settle here, we...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments." 25 He [Johnson] . . . took occasion to enlarge on the advantages of reading, and combated the idle... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pages
...emphatically: — he could not be prevailed upon, even by his dearest friends, to tell." 24 He [Johnson] was pleased to say, "If you come to settle here, we...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments." 2$ He [Johnson] . . . took occasion to enlarge on the advantages of reading, and combated the idle... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pages
...Johnson, B, V, 59. THE man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you. Ibid., Ill, 247. THAT is the happiest conversation where there is no...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments. Dr. Johnson, B, II, 359. BUT, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority?... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1986 - 272 pages
...The Rambler, ed. WJ Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969), 2.108. 24. "That is the happiest conversation where there is...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments" (L1fe 2.359). fears and your own thoughts, and then go where you will" (407). Here and elsewhere Johnson... | |
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If you come to settle here, we will have one day in the week on which we will meet by ourselves. That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments. 
