 | James Boswell - 1911 - 644 pages
...inherit her good qualities, will have no reason to complain of their lot. Dot mafita tartntum virtus. in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should...me, and would add something to the conversation." I observed, that we were this day to stop just where the Highland army did in 1745. JOHNSON. " It was... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Little magazines - 1912 - 756 pages
...said Johnson, "and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post chaise with a pretty woman; but she should be one who could...me, and would add something to the conversation." "Is she very pretty?" inquired someone about Miss Burney; "I was in hopes she was like her Evelina."... | |
 | James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 pages
...this." In our way, Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post-chaise. "If (said he) I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would...me, and would add something to the conversation." I observed, that we were this day to stop just where the Highland army did in 1745. JOHNSON. "It was... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - Authors, English - 1919 - 210 pages
...this.' In our way, Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post-chaise. 'If (said he) I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would...me, and would add something to the conversation.' " In the year following this visit to Ashbourne, 1778, there was fear of invasion. Our army was i Johnson... | |
 | O. Douglas - 1920 - 324 pages
...very like Jock, my Jean. . . . D'you remember what your admired Dr. Johnson said ? 'If I had no duties I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise...understand me and would add something to the conversation.' Wise old man ! Tell me, Penny-plain, you're not fretting about leaving the boys? You'll see them again... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1923 - 372 pages
...-poverty." In our way, Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post-chaise. "If (said he) I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would...me, and would add something to the conversation." When we arrived at Derby, Dr. Butter accompanied us to see the manufactory of china there. I admired... | |
 | Robert Lynd - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 266 pages
...futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman," for he adds : " But she should be one who could understand me and would add something to the conversation." Johnson expressed opinions on both sides of many questions; but he was almost consistently the defender... | |
 | American essays - 1910 - 872 pages
...have seen nothing. EVEN the motion of driving in a postchaise captivated the fancy of Dr. Johnson, for ,A Mrs. Piozzi, who, except for prettiness, fulfilled these requirements, for she was a brilliant conversationalist... | |
 | David Braybrooke - Philosophy - 1998 - 390 pages
...present happiness. A life ideal proposed by Dr Johnson comes close to being an adequate illustration: 'If ... I had no duties, and no reference to futurity...me, and would add something to the conversation.' 28 A lje-in' illustrates the point no more vividly perhaps, but at least on a larger scale: 'There... | |
 | William Godwin - Fiction - 2000 - 550 pages
...absolutely insist that you shall i According to James Boswell in his Life of Johnson (1791), Samuel Johnson said, "If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity,...understand me, and would add something to the conversation" (19 September 1777). fix upon a lady of forty-five years of age, or that you shall estimate her fitness... | |
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Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post-chaise *. " If," said he, " I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand... 
