 | Tobias Smollett - 1786 - 506 pages
...contentedly bore his ihare, for fixteen or feventeen years, made me go on fo long with Mr. Johnfon ; but the perpetual confinement I will own to have been terrifying in the nrft years of our friendship, and irkfome in the laft ; nor could I pretend to fupport it without help,... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1786 - 314 pages
...contentedly bore his fhare for fikteen or feventeen years, made me go on fo long with Mr. Johnfon; but the perpetual confinement I will own to have . been terrifying in the firft years of our friendfhip, and irkfome in the laft; nor could I pretend to fupport it without help,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pages
...Dr. Johnfon's Letter to Sir John Hawkins, " Life," p. 570, * •*' Anecdotes," p. 293. JMr. Johnfon; but the perpetual confinement I 'will own to have been terrifying, in the firjt years of our friend/hip, and irkfome in the loft; nor could I pretend to fupport it without help... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...which he contentedly bore his share for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with'Mr. Johnson; but the perpetual confinement, I will own...years of our friendship, and irksome in the last: nor could f pretend to support it without help, when my coadjutor was no more. To the assistance we gave... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...ofwhich he contentedly bore his share for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson ; but the perpetual confinement I will own...years of our friendship, and irksome in the last; nor could I pretend to support it without help, when mij coadjutor was no more." 3 Alas ! how different... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...me goonsolong with Mr. Johnson; but the perpetual confinement J will own to have been terrifying m the first years of our friendship, and irksome in the last ; nor could f pretend to support it without help, when my coadjutor was no more."3 Alas ! how different is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...habitual endurance of which my husband bore his share for seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson ; but the perpetual confinement I will own...irksome in the last, nor would I pretend to support it when my coadjutor was no more." Previous to her marriage with the Italian music -master, Johnson sent... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...which he contentedly bore his share, for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr Johnson ; but the perpetual confinement I will own...years of our friendship, and irksome in the last ; nor could I pretend to support it without help, when my coadjutor was no more." * A friendly correspondence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...go on so long with Mr. Johnson; but the perpetual confinement I will own to have been terr rify ing in the first years of our friendship, and irksome in the last, nor would I pretend to support it when my coadjutor •was no more." Previous to her marriage with the Italian music - master, Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson ; but the perpetual confinement 1 will own to have been terrifying in the first years of our friendship, and irksome in the last: nor could I pretend to support it without help, when roy coadjutor was no more." Alas ! how different is... | |
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Veneration for his virtue, reverence for his talents, delight in his conversation, and habitual endurance of a yoke my husband first put upon me, and of which he contentedly bore his share for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr.... 
