| James Boswell - 1912 - 106 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,...I should never hear it if it made me such a fool." — Vol. IV, p. 200. 1 This prayer was composed at a time when Johnson "purposed to apply vigorously... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 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...into the thickest part of the battle." " Sir," said Johnson, " I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool." * In a remark which he made on another... | |
| Charles E. Pearce - 1913 - 492 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...inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle." Boswell received from the Sage the crushing retort: " Sir, I should never hear it if it made me such... | |
| James Boswell - 1916 - 370 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,...should never hear it. if it made me such a fool." I talked to him of misery being "the doom of man," in this life, as displayed in his Vanity of Human... | |
| Alfred George Gardiner - 1917 - 296 pages
...apologies. And so when he has been expressing his emotions on hearing music. "Sir," said Johnson, " I should never hear it if it made me such a fool," Once indeed he rebelled. It was when they were dining with a company at Sir Joshua Reynolds's. Johnson... | |
| Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1924 - 494 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...'I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool !" Later, Boswell records.an incident that occurred near the close of Johnson's life. "Mr. Langton... | |
| Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 492 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.' " ' The difference between Goldsmith's and Johnson's attitude to music goes far to explain their different... | |
| Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1922 - 320 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 resolution,...inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle." Boswell was plainly right in calling this "romantic." If Rousseau had written the sentence, or Berlioz,... | |
| 1923 - 896 pages
...so painfully " as to produce now pathetic dejection and now daring resolution," Johnson said, " Sir, I should never hear it if it made me such a fool." His imperfect sight rendered him insensible to painting and indifferent to scenery. When he gave Boswell... | |
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