 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 304 페이지
...ventured to say (so Boswell tenderly introduces a remark from himself, the host and entertainer): "'Too fine for such a poem : a poem on what ?' JOHNSON (with...worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits. ' " Northcote, in his Life of Reynolds (ii. 189), has mistold this same incident, evidently taking... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 페이지
...Dunciad.1 While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem : — a poem on what ? " JOHNSON,...dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days 1 It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstall' observed, as a peculiar... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 페이지
...Dunciad.100 While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too well James" 1 It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff observed, as a peculiar... | |
 | 1900 - 674 페이지
...ventured to say that they were " too fine for such a poem — a poem on what ? " " Why," said Johnson, " on dunces ! It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! " Johnson presently uttered a criticism which has led some people to think that he had a touch of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 500 페이지
...Dunciad.1 While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem : — a poem on what ?" JOHNSON, (with a dis« dainful look), " Why on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 페이지
...ventured to say that they were " too fine for such a poem — a poem on what ? " " Why," said Johnson, " on dunces ! It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, sir, hadst ihou lived in those days ! " Johnson presently uttered a criticism which has led some people to think... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 페이지
...talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company [no doubt Boswell] ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem : — a poem on what?" JOHNSON...was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thoit lived in those days ! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." ' 'BosweSts... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1907 - 690 페이지
..."on dunces," the great doctor once said contemptuously, and then turned to poor Boswell and added : " It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, sir, hadst thou lived in those days! " 2 The closing period of Pope's literary career contains some of his strongest and maturest work :... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 페이지
...loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem:—a poem on what ?" JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,)...dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days 1 It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff observed, as a peculiar... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 페이지
...content. Here one night he said to Boswell, the subject of conversation being Pope's " Dunciad," " It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah! Sir, hadst thou lived in those days." Of Gray's " Elegy," Johnson remarked at another session of the club that he was dull in a new way and... | |
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While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem: — a poem on what?" JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived... 
