 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...Adams, he said, " Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It -was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...of two of Euripides's Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the ^Eneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of...anecdote from Dr. Adams, and Dr. Johnson confirmed it. Brainston, in his " Man of Taste," has the same thought : " Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...Dr Adams, he said, "Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. "Journey to the Western Islands," and of his coming away, "willing to believe the second But I have heard him say what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | Robert Farquharson Sharp - 1900 - 424 pages
...afterwards to a friend who alluded to his college life ; "it was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." In one important direction, however, his ideas underwent a complete change while he was at college.... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...fellow," he replied, " Ah ! sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so 1 disregarded all power and all authority." Though a hearty supporter of authority in principle, Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 404 pages
...Adams he said, ' Ah, sir, I was mad and violent . It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit, so I disregarded all power and all authority.' 1 I had this anecdote from Dr. Adams, and Dr. Johnson confirmed it. Bramston, in his Man of Taste,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1901 - 224 pages
...university experience : " Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded nil power and all authority." Swift learnt another and a more profitable lesson in these years. It... | |
 | John Richard Green, George Roberson - 1901 - 458 pages
...Sir, I was mad and violent — it was bitterness they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit, so I disregarded all power and all authority." Ill THERE are certain types which Nature seems never tired of repeating — if they vanish for a time,... | |
 | Alice Stopford Green - 1901 - 344 pages
..."Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent—it was bitterness they mistookfor frolic. I was miserably poor and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit, so I disregarded all power and all authority." 2 Ill THERE are certain types which Nature seems never tired of repeating—if they vanish for a time,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...fellow," he replied, " Ah ! sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." Though a hearty supporter of authority in principle, Johnson was distinguished through life by the... | |
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But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of appearances, and how little any of us know of the real internal state even of those whom we see most frequently ; for the truth is, that he was then depressed by poverty, and irritated by disease. When I... 
