 Mr. Windham has been here to see me ; he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half, perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature ;...  The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26 - Page 981812Full view - About this book
 | William Windham - 1913 - 414 pages
...Johnson " (ed. Hill), iv. 632. forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half ; perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation...and there Windham is, inter stellas luna minores." It was on this visit that Windham, as the Doctor put it, endeavoured to " wheedle " him into paying... | |
 | William Windham - 1913 - 418 pages
...Johnson " (ed. Hill), iv. 632. L forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half ; perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation...and there Windham is, inter Stellas luna minores." It was on this visit that Windham, as the Doctor put it, endeavoured to "wheedle" him into paying a... | |
 | William Windham - 1913 - 416 pages
...Johnson " (ed. Hill), iv. 632. forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half ; perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation...literature ; and there Windham is, inter Stellas luna minor es." It was on this visit that Windham, as the Doctor put it, endeavoured to "wheedle" him into... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - 654 pages
...conversation I shall 1 Life 3. 417. 2 [querellnrum]. s Life 4. 351. * Ibid. 4. 355. « Ibid. 4. 3.56. not have again till I come back to the regions of...and there Windham is, inter Stellas Luna minores. O. 1. 12. 47-48.1 6. Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson and of his Conversation. From Boswell's Life of Johnson.... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - 662 pages
...Mr. Windham has been here to see me. . . . Such conversation I shall 1 Life 3. 417. 2 [querellarurn]. not have again till I come back to the regions of...literature; and there Windham is, inter stellas Luna minoret. O. 1. 12. 47-48. 1 6. Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson and of hit Conversation. From Boswell's Life... | |
 | George Douglas Howard Cole - 1925 - 504 pages
...visited him at Ashbourne, and drew from him a remarkable tribute. " Such conversation," said Johnson, " I shall not have again till I come back to the regions...and there Windham is inter stellas Luna minores." His contemporaries bear unanimous witness to his conversational charm. They praised his oratory no... | |
 | A. D. Bayne - 1873 - 674 pages
...illustrated in one of his letters printed by Boswell, addressed to Dr. Brocklesby, in which Johnson says, " Mr. Windham has been here to see me ; he came...come back to the regions of literature, and there Wiudham is 'inter Stellas lima minor es' " Mr. Windham's other connections about this time of a political... | |
 | 1812 - 1092 pages
...here to be omitted. " Mr. Windham," taid he, " has been here to see me ; — he came I think fopty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a...conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regionsof literature, and there Windham is inter Stellas Luna minores' This letter was written at Dr.... | |
 | 130 pages
...been here to see me, he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and stayed about a day and a half. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come...and there Windham is inter Stellas luna minores". A point in regard to this quotation is not without interest, though it is not strictly relevant to... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1879 - 590 pages
...of Dr. Johnson's celebrated literary club. Dr. Johnson, in mentioning a visit from Windham, says, " Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature, and then Windham is ' inter ignes luna minores.' " It is surprising that so little is known of Marsham... | |
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