 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 pages
...which feeling was reciprocated. Johnson particularly enjoyed his fine conversation, and once said, " Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds...whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you." Again he remarked of him, " That you could not stand five minutes with that man beneath a shed while... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 pages
...perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. " It seems strange (said he) that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so...way to the left. Burke is the only man whose common an easy perusal of the Roman authors.' Johnson's Works,v. 129. 'The style of Shakespeare was in itself... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 pages
...publication of so divine a work.' Calamities of Authors, i. 250. 3 conversation so Dodsley's CLEONE. [AD weo. conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you '." ' ' A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 pages
...Memoirs, iii. 185. of so divine a work.' Calamities of * He uses the same image in The Authors, i. 250. conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you'."' ' A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 pages
...perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. ' It seems strange (said he,) that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so...conversation corresponds with the general fame which he had in the world. Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you.'" '' A gentleman, by... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1888 - 316 pages
...ebullition of his mind; he does not talk from a desire of distinction, but because his mind is full. Burke is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general fame which he has in the world. Burke, sir, is such a man, that if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 578 pages
...perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. ' It seems strange,' said he, ' that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so...whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you.' "A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature, having discovered less acquaintance with one of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 pages
...perceiving any particular power of mind in them in convernation. ' It seems strange,' said he, ' that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so...whatever topic you please, he is ready to meet you." " A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature, having discovered less icquaintance with one of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. 'It seems strange,' said he, 'that T " • The Rev. Joshua Barnes, the learned editor of Homer. lîuripidcb, and Anacreon. He was author... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 548 pages
...perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. " It seems strange, (said he,) that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so...general fame which he has in the world. Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you'." ' ' A gentleman, by no means deficient in literature,... | |
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He used frequently to observe that men might be very eminent in a profession, without our perceiving any particular power of mind in them in conversation. ' It seems strange,' said he, ' that a man should see so far to the right, who sees so short a way... 
