 | 1888 - 438 pages
...contempt of sleep he quoted and altered some lines from Lord Lansdowne's " Drinking Song " — " Short, O short, then, be thy reign, And give us to the world again." They strolled to the Thames by Ivy Bridge, and were rowed to Billingsgate, and then resolved to run... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his sen-ices were not relished. They then C <sU S U T T T ,GT%D T U\L OQ: T T T H V[T\T]T S ,G aU V ; TES О short, then be thy reign, And give us to the world again " ' They did not stay long, but walked... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then repaired to one of the neighbouring taverns, and made...been roused, he repeated the festive lines, " Short, O short then be thy reign, And give us to the world again 1 " They did not stay long, but walked down... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 404 pages
...joyous contempt of sleep, from which he had been roused, he repeated the festive lines, ' Short, O short then be thy reign, And give us to the world again.' 1 1 Mr. Langton has recollected, or Dr. Johnson repeated, the passage wrong. The lines are in Lord Lansdowne's... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 500 pages
...figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then repaired to one of the neighbouring taverns, and made...sleep, from which he had been roused, he repeated the lines : " ' Short, O short then be thy reign, And give us to the world again ! ' ' " They did not stay... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pages
...interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then repaired to one of the neigbouring taverns, and made a bowl of that liquor called bishop,...then be thy reign, And give us to the world again!' They did not stay long, but walked down to the Thames, took a boat, and rowed to Billingsgate. Beauclerk... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then r opinion, that the Commentary cannot be prosecuted...its own intrinsick merit, the publick will soon be O short then be thy reign, And give us to the world again ! ' ' They did not stay long, but walked... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 pages
...post, THOMSON, 13. * When Langton and Beauclerk knocked up Johnson at three in the morning, ' they repaired to one of the neighbouring taverns, and made...been roused, he repeated the festive lines, Short, O short then be thy reign, And give us to the world again." ' Boswell's Johnson, i. 251. The lines... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 712 pages
...joyous contempt of sleep, from which he had been roused, he repeated the festive lines, " Short, O short then be thy reign, And give us to the world...walked down to the Thames, took a boat, and rowed to Billingsgate. Beauclerk and Johnson were so well pleased with their amusement, that they resolved... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then hen they take revenge, are desirous the party should know whence it cometh. This i Binhufif which Johnson had always liked: while, in joyous contempt of sleep, from which he had been... | |
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... fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers, just come in from the country. Johnson made some attempts to help them ; but the honest gardeners stared so at his figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not... 
