 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pages
...and I was only yet a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with nil the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference...man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hoars, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who, has lengthened, and one who has... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pages
...of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know ho could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude...table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...Gilbert Walmsley 4, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature...lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James5, whose skill in physick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 574 pages
...honoured him and he endured me. ' He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its rices or its follies ; but had never neglected the cultivation...lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James3, whose skill in physick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 pages
...His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His aquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately...has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...Gilbert Walmesley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature...many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions suchas are not often found — with one who has lengthened, • Mr. Warton informs me, "that this early... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 474 pages
...went up to London. Boswell's Johnson, vol. i. pp. 46, 58. And for his criticism of Irene, ibid. p. 65. a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of...his friendship. At this man's table I enjoyed many chearful and instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1898 - 448 pages
...find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may bc doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not...hours, with companions such as are not often found ; will) one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 562 pages
...Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature...cheerful and instructive hours, with companions such as arc not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James,1... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find. Sucb was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness...has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this... | |
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His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great : and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his... 
