 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetick dejection, SIR, — I congratulate you and Lady Rothes l on your in the Swiss, when in a foreign land, the maladie du pais, has, I am told, no intrinsick power of sound.... | |
 | 1904 - 302 pages
...degree as often to excite my nerves painfully, producing alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears, and of daring resolution,...into the thickest part of the battle." "Sir," said Dr. Johnson, "I should never hear it if it made me such a Fool." He also lectured to various Musical... | |
 | 1904 - 302 pages
...resolution, so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle." "Sir," said Dr. Johnson, "I should never hear it if it made me such a Fool." He also lectured to various Musical Societies, and at Aberdeen University and elsewhere. CHAPTER IX... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1905 - 910 pages
...confided to Johnson, affected him intensely, producing ' 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 battle/ — a battle, of course, that was purely hypothetical. * Sir/ replied the other, ' I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 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...if it made me such a fool." Much of the effect of music, I am satisfied, is owing to the association of ideas. That air which instantly and irresistibly... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 878 pages
...degree as often to excite my nerves painfully, producing alternate sensations of pathetic dejection so that I was ready to shed tears, and of daring resolution...into the thickest part of the battle.' '"Sir," said Dr. Johnson, "I should never hear it if it made me such a fool! " ' One is never sorry to be reminded... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 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... | |
 | 1911 - 796 pages
...degree as often to excite my nerves painfully, producing alternate sensations of pathetic dejection so that i was ready to shed tears, and of daring resolution...rush into the thickest part of the battle. Sir,' said Dr. Johnson, 'i should never hear it if it made me such a fool!' " One is never sorry to be reminded... | |
 | Edward Dickinson - 1911 - 318 pages
...producing in my mind alternate sensations of painful dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears; or of daring resolution, so that I was 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." Between Johnson's indifference and Boswell's... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1912 - 316 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.' " This he sets down as though it were a very natural comment. Years later, when he was preparing his... | |
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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. 
