 | James Boswell - 1852
...double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their...Johnson told me of an instance of Scottish nationality, whichmade a very unfavourable impression upon his mind. A Scotchman of some consideration in London,... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 페이지
...sentence surprises, and constitutes a challenge to find out the poet's meaning. Johnson's remark, " The Irish are a fair people ; they never speak well of one another ", is distinctly witty ; the transition is quite unexpected. Scott's simile is witty : " An orator... | |
 | 1911 - 302 페이지
...in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. Xo, sir, the Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another." In Swift's sermon on the causes of the wretched condition of Ireland — in the generation before Johnson... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 페이지
...knack of insinuating sarcasm where it was not directly expressed, as where he said of the Irish, " The Irish are a FAIR PEOPLE, they never speak well of one another." So, too, in his remark to Boswell, who had made, as was too common with that gentleman, one of his... | |
 | Townsend Walsh - 1915 - 280 페이지
...vindictiveness. Mr. William Winter has explained this anomalous situation by quoting Dr. Johnson's sage remark: "Sir, the Irish are a fair people. They never speak well of one another." The autumn of 1864 found the "Genial John" and the dapper Dion in their native city in the land of... | |
 | Warre Bradley Wells, N. Marlowe - 1916 - 300 페이지
...is a curious blend of admiration and animadversion, and may recallito some Dr. Johnson's remark that the Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another. . ." — Glasgow Herald. "... He pictures him as the last comic Irishman left in the world, leaping... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 페이지
...double-edged wit, 'Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their...PEOPLE;— they never speak well of one another.' All the miserable cavillings against his Journey, in newspapers, magazines, and other fugitive publications,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 612 페이지
...in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. Noj Sir; the Irish are a FAIR PEOPLE; — they never speak well of one another.' All the miserable cavillings against his Journey, in newspapers, magazines, and other fugitive publications,... | |
 | Warre Bradley Wells - 1917 - 198 페이지
...is a curious blend of admiration and animadversion, and may recall to some Dr. Johnson's remark that the Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another, i . ," — Glasgow Herald. " . . . He pictures him as the last comic Irishman left in the world, leaping... | |
 | Englishman - 1917 - 308 페이지
...is a curious blend of admiration and animadversion, and may recall to some Dr. Johnson's remark that the Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another, i . ." — Glasgow Herald. " This is a strong and serious indictment which should make people think.... | |
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Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No', Sir; the Irish are a FAIR PEOPLE; — they never speak well of one another. 
