You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. Samuel Johnson - Page 69by Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 195 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...' Mira cano, Sol occubuit, nox milla secuta est. ' EDWARDS : " You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher ;...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." — Mr. Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Courtenay, Mr. Malone, and, indeed, all the eminent men to... | |
| Andrew Clark - 1891 - 504 pages
...Colleges. Edwards has given us a saying we would not willingly lose : " You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but,...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." Johnson remembered drinking with Edwards a: an alehouse near Pembroke-gate. Their meeting again, after... | |
| 1895 - 416 pages
...lives but crosses, cares, and grief. KING RICHARD II. H. 2. '"VTOU are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried, too, in my time to be a philosopher...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.' Mr. Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Courtenay, Mr. Malone, and, indeed, all the eminent men to whom... | |
| Douglas Macleane - 1897 - 614 pages
...and Reynolds pronounced an exquisite trait of character : — ' You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher ;...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.' Edwards wished he had continued at College, been ordained and retired, ' like Bloxham ' and several... | |
| Douglas Macleane - 1897 - 580 pages
...and Reynolds pronounced an exquisite trait of character : — ' You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. 1 have tried too in my time to be a philosopher ; but,...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.' Edwards wished he had continued at College, been ordained and retired, ' like Bloxham 2 and several... | |
| 1900 - 674 pages
...produced, but perhaps his best find was a phrase of Edwards himself. " You are a philosopher, Dr. Johneon," he said ; " I have tried, too, in my time to be a...well known. The best loved of all seems to have been Dr. Bathurst, a physician, who, failing to obtain practice, joined the expedition to Havannah, and... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...1 This (amoiu line occurs in an epigram by Crashaw. EDWARDS. " You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher ;...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." — Mr. Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Courtenay, Mr. Malone, and, indeed, all the eminent men to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 334 pages
...a lad at college with him, and only accidentally met him after a separation of forty-nine years ; " I have tried, too, in my time to be a philosopher;...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." — Boswell, vii. 153. The reader sees that with Oliver Goldsmith, as with the good old Oliver Edwards,... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...' Mita cano, Soi occubuit, nox nullst secuta est.'" EDWARDS : " You are a philosopher, Dr Johnson. s, such @q " — Mr Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr Cotrrtenay, Mr Malone, and, indeed, all the eminent men to whom... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...anecdote which the meeting produced, but perhaps his best find was a phrase of Edwards himself. " Yon are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson," he said ; " I have...exquisite trait of character. Of the friends who gathered ronnd Johnson during hie period of struggle, many had vanished before he became well known. The best... | |
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