| James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...BOSWELL. " I should not be surprised to find Jack Wilkes there." JOHNSON. "And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, sir ? My dear friend,...could not meet any company whatever, occasionally." BosAVKIX. " Pray forgive me, sir : I meant well. But you shall meet whoever comes, for me." Thus I... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...BOSWELL. " I should not be surprised to find Jack Wilkes there." JOHNSON. " And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir ? My dear friend,...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 well pleased to be one... | |
| 1839 - 444 pages
...to find Jack Wilkes there.' JOHNSON. 'And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, sir i My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am sorry to be angry with you j but really it is treating me strangely, to talk to me as if I could not meet any company whatever,... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...BOSWELL. " I should not be surprised to find Jack Wilkes there." JOHNSON. " And if Jack Wilkes thmtld be there, what is that to me, sir? My dear friend,...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 well pleased to be one... | |
| James Boswell - 1844 - 370 pages
...BOSWELL. " I should not be surprised to find Jack Wilkes there." JOHNSON. " And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir ? My dear friend,...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 well pleased to be one... | |
| James Graham Marquis of Montrose, Henry Winsor - 1861 - 416 pages
...Boswell : " I should not be surprised to find Jack Wilkes there." Johnson: " And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, sir ? My dear friend,...me, sir ; I meant well ; but you shall meet whoever comes, for me." And so Boswell, as he thought, " secured him ; " but man is born to trouble as the... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...BOSWELL : ' I should not be surprised to find Jack Wilkes there.' JOHNSON : ' And if Jack Wilkes thould be there, what is that to me, sir ? My dear friend,...BOSWELL : ' Pray forgive me, sir ; I meant well. But yon shall meet whoever comes for me.' Thus I secured him, and told Dilly that he would find him very... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...BOSWELL. "I should not be surprized to find Jack Wilkes there." JOHNSON. "And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir? My dear friend,...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 well pleased to be one... | |
| Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...BOSWELL : ' I should not be surprised to find Jack Wilkes there.'— JOHNSON : 'And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir ? My dear friend,...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 well pleased to be one... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...BOSWELL. " I should not be surprized to find Jack Wilkes there." JOHNSON. " And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir? My dear friend,...meet any company whatever, occasionally." BOSWELL. 11 This has been circulated as if actually said by Johnson, when the truth is it was only supposed... | |
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