 He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females, and call them his Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates every body ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does...  The Quarterly Review - Strona 204pod redakcją - 1859Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1907 - Liczba stron: 668
...Johnson describes, in a letter to Mrs Thrale, how his guests got on with each other; "Williams," he says, "hates everybody; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does...not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both; Poll (Miss Carmichael) loves none of them." Then Frank Barber resented the authority of Miss Williams, and... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - 1908 - Liczba stron: 350
...and quarrelsome, as the benevolent host himself described them in one of his last letters: "Williams hates everybody; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does...Desmoulins hates them both; Poll loves none of them." As we learned that Dr. Johnson had lived in no less than sixteen houses in London, we gave up any idea... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - 1908 - Liczba stron: 441
...munch. Was there ever such a home ? " Williams hates everybody," groaned the doctor to Mrs. Thrale. " Levett hates Desmoulins and does not love Williams. Desmoulins hates them both, and Polly loves none of them." ' Much as the life in London bulks in Boswell's career, it after all... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Raby - 1909 - Liczba stron: 168
...versifier ; and Poll Carmichael, whom Johnson described as " a dull slut." " Williams," he once wrote, " hates everybody ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does...Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them." This was the domestic circle of that great intellect. Surely we may say that his heart was even greater,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : — fc Williams hates everybody ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does...Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll ' loves none of them." "TO JiiCKS BOSVQX, ESQ. So, AbmnJer 21, 1778. " It is indeed a long time since I wrote, and rtmifc... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - Liczba stron: 694
...Carmichael, of whom little is known (ib. iv. 222). The party was not harmonious. Williams, said Johnson, 'hates everybody; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does...not love Williams; Desmoulins hates them both; Poll [Miss Carmichael] loves none of them.' Johnson sometimes feared to go home on account of their complaints,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - Liczba stron: 548
...them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale:* " Williams hates every body; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams...Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll » loves none of them." To JAMES BOSWELL, Esq. " DEAR SIR, — It is indeed a long time since I wrote, and I think you have... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - Liczba stron: 126
...apothecary who lives in Johnson's " In Memoriam"; and it was far from a happy family. " Williams," he told Mrs. Thrale, " hates everybody, Levett hates Desmoulins...not love Williams, Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll (Miss Carmichael) loves none of them." Frank, Johnson's negro servant, appears to have been a worthy... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - Liczba stron: 310
...whom lived on his charity and worried his life out. For, as he says in one of his! letters : Williams hates everybody : Levett hates Desmoulins, and does...Desmoulins hates them both. Poll loves none of them.* Poll, it may be observed, was particularly trying. " I took to Poll," he said to Mrs. Thrale, " very... | |
 | James Boswell - 1912 - Liczba stron: 106
...Johnson: "Sir, it is one of the happiest I have ever heard," — Vol. V, p. 40, 1778— ait. 69 "Williams hates everybody; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams: Desmoulins hates them both; Poll1 loves none of them." 2 Vol. V, p. 70. 1779 — SA. 70 Johnson: "Garrick was a very good man,... | |
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