 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - Liczba stron: 270
...the year 1773, induced to take the journey, by finding in Mr. Bos well a companion whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation...in countries less hospitable than we have passed. On the eighteenth of August we left Edinburgh, a city too well known to admit description, and directed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - Liczba stron: 542
...Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his Tour, represents him as one "whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation,...civility of manners. are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed." Dr. Johnson thought it... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - Liczba stron: 364
...partiality to the companion of his ' Tour ' represents him as one ' whose acuteness would help my enquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, and civility of...less hospitable than we have passed.' Dr. Johnson in a letter to Mrs. Thrale wrote of him in terms of the highest esteem : ' Boswell will praise my resolution... | |
 | 1914 - Liczba stron: 546
...find his guide referred to as "a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gayety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient...in countries less hospitable than we have passed." He wrote in the same strain to Mrs. Thrale : "Boswell will praise my resolution and perseverance, and... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - Liczba stron: 346
...floor into a puddle. But these things did not trouble them. Johnson had " in Mr Boswell a companion, whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners...in countries less hospitable than we have passed." 3 So when luck comes their way, we find them gaily disputing " which of us had the best curtains. His... | |
 | Arthur Michael Samuel - 1918 - Liczba stron: 278
...undertake the journey," as he himself says, " by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation...in countries less hospitable than we have passed." Unfortunately, in spite of their joint eulogiums upon Scottish breakfasts, neither Johnson nor Boswell... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1922 - Liczba stron: 320
...pleasant reference to himself in the first paragraph, as a "companion whose acuteness would help his inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel in countries less hospitable than we have passed." This was gratifying, of... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - Liczba stron: 438
...year 1773, induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell 1 a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation...in countries less hospitable than we have passed." The learned Traveller relates no occurrences of his journey from London to Edinburgh. His itinerary,... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1924 - Liczba stron: 322
...writes : " I was induced to take the journey by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation...sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel." Surely this is a very handsome compliment to one who has been looked upon by many as a mere prating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - Liczba stron: 562
...year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation...civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed. On the eighteenth of August... | |
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He cannot deny himself the vanity of finishing with the encomium of Dr. Johnson, whose friendly partiality to the companion of his tour represents him as one "whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners... 
