 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pagina’s
...those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem: a poem on what?" — J. (with a disdainful look) " Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, sir, hadst tltou lived in those days ! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pagina’s
...lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem : — a poem on what ?" JOHJÎSON, (with a disdainful look,) " Why, on dunces. It was...worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou livef in those days ! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pagina’s
...lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem : — a poem on what ?" JOHNSOK, (with a disdainful look,) " Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst Ihou lived in those days ! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstalf... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 348 pagina’s
...(') While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem: — a poem on what?" JOHNSON...dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! (2) It is not worth (1) ["Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 pagina’s
...loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem:—a poem on what?" JOHNSON (with a disdainful look), "...was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst ttunt lived in those days ! ( 2 ) It is not worth (1) ["Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pagina’s
...(with a disdainful look). " Why, on dunce*. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, sir, hadst than lived in those days ! It is not worth while being...peculiar circumstance, that Pope's fame was higher wh«n he was alive than it was then. Johnson said, his Pw1 Mr. I«mgton informed me that he once related... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 pagina’s
...poem was far too fine for such a subject, — "a poem on what?" — " Why on dunces;" said Johnson. "It was worth while being a dunce then : ah ! sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! but it is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Among those to whom it was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pagina’s
...Dunciad.5 While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem : — a poem on what ? " JOHNSON...dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! 6 It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff observed, as a peculiar... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 354 pagina’s
...(') While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for Such a poem: — a poem on what?" JOHNSON...was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst ihou lived in those days ! (2) It is not worth (1) ["Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pagina’s
...ventured to say (so Boswell tenderly introduces a remark from himself, the host and entertainer), "Too fine for such a poem : — "a poem on what?" JoHNSoN...while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Northcote, in his Life of Reynolds (ii. 189) has mistold this same incident, evidently taking it out... | |
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While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem: — a poem on what?" JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived... 
