| Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pagina’s
...sir, and what then? What care / for his patriotick friends? Poh!" BOSWELL. "I should not be surprized sepulchre, Vaulted with all thy congregated might...rain, and fire, and hail will burst: Oh hear! in you shall meet whoever comes, for me." Thus I secured him, and told Dilly that he would find him very... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pagina’s
...should be 1 That is, with the hangman. Jack Ketch, a century earlier, was the public executioner. 1776 there, what is that to me, sir? My dear friend, let...BOSWELL: "Pray, forgive me, sir: I meant well. But you shall meet whoever comes, for me." Thus I secured him, and told Dilly that he would find him very... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pagina’s
...should be 1 That is, with the hangman. Jack Ketch, a century earlier, was the public executioner. 1776 there, what is that to me, sir? My dear friend, let...BOSWELL: "Pray, forgive me, sir: I meant well. But you shall meet whoever comes, for me." Thus I secured him, and told Dilly that he would find him very... | |
| Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 pagina’s
...with him. Johnson : Well, sir, and what then ? What care I for his patriotic friends ? Poh ! Boswell : I should not be surprised to find Jack Wilkes there....Boswell : Pray forgive me, sir. I meant well, but you shall meet whoever comes for me. Boswell had thus won the first victory. But the meeting was still... | |
| Michael Billig - 1996 - 340 pagina’s
...keep at his table?" Even if that company were to include Mr Wilkes? Johnson's anger was rising nicely: "My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am...really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as I could not meet any company occasionally" (1906, vol. H, p. 46). LaPiere's hoteliers would also not... | |
| Peter Martin - 2002 - 644 pagina’s
...there, maybe even Wilkes. 'JOHNSON: "And if Jack Wilkes shouldbe there, what is that to me, Sir? ... I am sorry to be angry with you; but really it is...could not meet any company whatever, occasionally." ' 'Thus I secured him,' Boswell wrote. There was a moment of panic when on 15 May he appeared at Johnson's... | |
| Stephen Miller - 2006 - 380 pagina’s
...with him. JOHNSON: What care I for his patriotick friends? Poh! BOSWELL: I should not be surprized to find Jack Wilkes there. JOHNSON: And if Jack Wilkes...could not meet any company whatever, occasionally. Would Johnson have met with "any company whatever, occasionally"? It is impossible to answer this question,... | |
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