 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson - London (England) - 1925 - 352 pages
...very foolish old gentleman who addressed Johnson at Oxford in these words : " Young man, ply your b9ok diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge ;...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task." The old gentleman seems to have been unaware that many other things besides reading grow irksome, and... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. My judgment, to be sure, was not so good, but njoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes,sss...wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewa wUl be but an irksome task.' " This account of his reading, given by himself in plain words, sufficiently... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...but, I had all the facts. I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to 1 763 me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.' " 6 [JOHNSON:] "Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...but, I had all the facts. I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to 1763 me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.' " 6 [JOHNSON:] "Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1925 - 360 pages
...him. It must have been a very foolish old gentleman who addressed Johnson at Oxford in these words: "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task." The old gentleman seems to have been unaware that many other things besides reading grow irEsome/and... | |
 | Steven R. Fischer - History - 2004 - 388 pages
...my early years I read very hard'.28 In his youth he had been advised by an old gentleman at Oxford, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.' And this is just what Dr Johnson did. Indeed, a close friend, the Scottish economist and philosopher... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig - Study Aids - 2003 - 276 pages
...him. It must have been a very foolish old gentleman who addressed Johnson at Oxford in these words: "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task." The old gentleman seems to have been unaware that many other things besides reading grow irksome, and... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - Authors, English - 2005 - 321 pages
...that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. My judgement, to be sure, was not so good; but, I had all the facts. I remember very well, when I...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'" [109] This account of his reading, given by himself in plain words, sufficiently confirms what I have... | |
 | 152 pages
...that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. My judgment, to be sure, was not so good ; but I had all the facts. I remember very well, when I...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'" JAMES BOSWELL, Life of Johnson. 177.* THE HAPPINESS OF CHILDREN. Fresh air and liberty are all that... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1923 - 430 pages
...him. It must have been a very foolish old gentleman who addressed Johnson at Oxford in these words : "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task." The old gentleman seems to have been unaware that many other things besides reading grow irksome, and... | |
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My judgment, to be sure, was not so good ; but I had all the facts. I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, ' Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge ; for when years come upon you, you... 
