 | 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...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 him,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...endurance of a yoke my husband first put upon me, and ofwhich he contentedly bore his share for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson...nor could I pretend to support it without help, when mij coadjutor was no more." 3 Alas ! how different is this from the declarations which 1 have heard... | |
 | 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 this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 pages
...virtues, reverence for his talents, and an habitual endurance of which my husband bore his share for seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson...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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...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 Johnson...support it without help, when my coadjutor was no more." * A friendly correspondence continued, however, between Johnson and Mrs Thrale, without interruption,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...virtues, reverence for his talents, and an habitual endurance of which my husband bore his share for seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson;...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...husband tirst put upon me, and of which he contentedly bore his- share for sixteen or м-- venteeii years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson ; but the perpetual confinement 1 will own to have been terrifying in the first year* of our friendship, and irksome in the last :... | |
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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.... 
