 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1879 - 196 pagina’s
...to that effect. Sir Joshua carried this paper to Johnson, who nevertheless sturdily protested that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. In November JS Copley and W. Parry were elected Associates of the Royal Academy. Sir Joshua's Seventh... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 634 pagina’s
...good humour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the r. 'gentlemen that he would alter the epitaph in any 4 manner they pleased, as to the sense of it, but he...never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster 1 Boswell's JoJintmi, ii. 225. An printed privately at the Chiswick Press, interesting application... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 650 pagina’s
...be in English, but when Sir Joshua presented it, our bear and lion of literature replied, he "could never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." And he went on growling, "I wonder that Joe Wharton, a scholar by profession, should be such a fool"... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 604 pagina’s
...be in English, but when Sir Joshua presented it, our bear and lion of literature replied, he " could never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." And he went on growling, " I wonder that Joe Wharton, a scholar by profession, should be such a fool... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pagina’s
...instances he appears to have trusted too much to Buffbn, who, with all his theoretical that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to...disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inseription. " I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 pagina’s
...received the document with great good humour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen " that he would alter the epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would not consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription." Fancy a number... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 pagina’s
...make any minor alterations, but stoutly resisted the proposal of having it in English ; and added that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. It was his opinion that the language of the country of which a learned man was a native was not the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 506 pagina’s
...make any minor alterations, but stoutly resisted the proposal of having it in English ; and added that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. It was his opinion that the language of the country of which a learned man was a native was not the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pagina’s
...who, with all his theoretical that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to tht sense of it, but he would never consent to disgrace the •walls of Waiminster Abbey with an English inscription. " I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 pagina’s
...make any minor alterations, but stoutly resisted the proposal of having it in English ; and added that he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. It was his opinion that the language of the country of which a learned man was a native was not the... | |
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Sir Joshua agreed to carry it to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour,1 and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but he would never consent to disgrace... 
