 I wrote for some months in The Universal Visitor, for poor Smart, while he was mad, not then knowing the terms on which he was engaged to write, and thinking I was doing him good. I hoped his wits would soon return to him. Mine returned to me, and I wrote...  The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone - Pagina 69door James Boswell - 1821Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pagina’s
...to him ! " I wrote, sir," said the latter, "for some months in the Universal Visitor for poor Smart, not " then knowing the terms on which he was engaged..."return to him. Mine returned to me, and I wrote in the Uni" mrsal Visitor no longer." It was a sixpenny weekly-pamphlet; the agreement was for ninety-nine... | |
 | William Fordyce - 1857 - 730 pagina’s
...Johnson says, " I wrote for some months in the Universal Visitor, for poor Smart. Not knowing then the terms on which he was engaged to write, and thinking...me, and I wrote in the Universal Visitor no longer." Smart is thus noticed by Chalmers in his Lives of the Poets : — At Durham Grammar School was educated... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 464 pagina’s
...bibliopole, Sir, in every sense. I wrote for some months in ' The Universal Visitor' for poor Smart, while he was mad, not then knowing the terms on which he was...wrote in ' The Universal Visitor' no longer." Friday, tth April, I dined with him at a tavern, with a numerous company. " JOHNSON. " I have been reading... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pagina’s
...contract when he benevolently consented to hold the pen for his lunatic friend. ' I hoped,' he said, ' his wits would soon return to him. Mine returned to...and I wrote in the " Universal Visitor " no longer.' He began, however, in May, to write on his own account for a new periodical, called the ' Literary... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pagina’s
...contract when he benevolently consented to hold the pen for his lunatic friend. ' I hoped,' he said, ' his wits would soon return to him. Mine returned to...and I wrote in the "Universal Visitor" no longer.' He began, however, in May, to write on his own account for a new periodical called the ' Literary Magazine.'... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pagina’s
...contract when he benevolently consented to hold the pen for his lunatic friend. ' I hoped,' he said, ' his wits would soon return to him. Mine returned to...and I wrote in the " Universal Visitor " no longer.' He began, however, in May, to write on his own account for a new periodical, called the ' Literary... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 pagina’s
...contract when he benevolently consented to hold the pea for his lunatic friend. ' I hoped,' he said, ' his wits would soon return to him. Mine returned to...and I wrote in the " Universal Visitor " no longer.' He began, however, in May, to write on his own account for a new periodical, called the ' Literary... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pagina’s
...contract when he benevolently consented to hold the pen for his lunatic friend. ' I hoped,' he said, ' his wits would soon return to him. Mine returned to...and I wrote in the " Universal Visitor " no longer.' He began, however, in May, to write on his own account for a new periodical, called the ' Literary... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 pagina’s
...was for ninety-nine years. I wrote for some months in The Universal Visitor for poor Smart, while he was mad, not then knowing the terms on which he was...me, and I wrote in The Universal Visitor no longer.' Smart at last was called to pay the penalty of his blended labour and dissipation. In 1763 he was shut... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 360 pagina’s
...was for ninety-nine years. I wrote for some months in The Universal Visitor for poor Smart, while he was mad, not then knowing the terms on which he was...return to him. Mine returned to me, and I wrote in The Uni- • versal Visitor no longer.' Smart at last was called to pay the penalty of his blended labour... | |
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