 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetick dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ; -and of daring...that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of a battle. " Sir (said he,) I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool." Much of the effect of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetick dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ;-and of daring...that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of a battle. " Sir (said he,) I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool." Much of the effect of... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 pages
...resolution, so that I am inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle." " Sir," said Johnson, " I should never hear it if it made me such a fool." Nevertheless, there is at least one other instance on record of the Doctor's having been moved, not... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...evening]: " Music affects me to such a into the thickest part of the battle." " Sir," said Johnson, " I should never hear it if it made me such a fool." Nevertheless, there is at least one other instance on record of the Doctor's having been moved, not... | |
 | George Hart - 1875 - 466 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ; and of daring...should never hear it, if it made me such a fool.' " — BoswelVs Life of Johnson. DR. JOHNSON ON THE DIFFICULTY OF PLAYING THE FIDDLE. "Goldsmith: 'I... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ; and of daring...should never hear it, if it made me such a fool." — Boswell. I repeated to him an argument of a lady of my acquaintance, who maintained that her husband's... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears; and of daring resolution,...he, " I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool."—Boswell. I repeated to him an argument of a lady of my acquaintance, who maintained that her... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pages
...Johnson, affected him intensely, producing in his mind "alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears, and of daring resolution so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest of the [purely hypothetical] battle." " Sir," replied Johnson, " I should never hear it, if it made... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - 436 pages
...music frequently affected him as it affected many of us on this occasion. " Sir," growled Johnson, " I should never hear it if it made me such a fool." But then a man, however great, cannot be everything ; and Johnson was not only not a Scotchman, but... | |
 | Rev. Alexander Stewart - 1883 - 444 pages
...music frequently affected him as it affected many of us on this occasion. " Sir," growled Johnson, " I should never hear it if it made me such a fool." But then a man, however great, cannot be everything ; and Johnson was not only not a Scotchman, but... | |
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... dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears; and of daring resolution, so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle. ' Sir, (said he,) I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool. 
