 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 374 pages
...of the day ; but Langton deserted them, being engaged to breakfast with some young ladies. Johnson scolded him for leaving his social friends, to go and sit with a set of wretched " oneidead girls." Garrick, being told of this ramble, said to him smartly, " I heard of your frolic... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 390 pages
...Johnson scolded him for leaving his social friends, to go and sit with a set of wretched " oneidead girls." Garrick, being told of this ramble, said to him smartly, " I heard of your frolic t'other night. You'll be in the ' Chronicle.' " Upon which Johnson afterwards observed, " He... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...engagement to breakfast with some young ladies ; whereupon the great moralist reproached him with " leaving his social friends to go and sit with a set of wretched un-idea'd girls." This madcap freak of the great lexicographer made a sensation, as may well be supposed, among his intimates.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 510 pages
...rest of the day; but Langton deserted them, being engaged to breakfast with some young ladies. Johnson scolded him for ' leaving his social friends, to go...this ramble, said to him smartly—' I heard of your frolic t'other night You'll be in the Chronicle.' Upon which Johnson afterwards observed—' He durst... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...of tho day ; but Langten deserted them, being engaged to breakfast with some young ladies. Johnson scolded him for 'leaving his social friends, to go and sit with a set of wretehed un-idca'd girls.' Garrick being told of this ramble, said to him smartly, ' I heard of your... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...rest of the day: but Langton deserted them, being engaged to breakfast with some young ladies. Johnson scolded him for "leaving his social friends, to go...night. You'll be in the Chronicle." Upon which Johnson afterwards observedv "He durst not do such a thing. His wife would not let him !" He entered upon the... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...rest of the day: but Langton deserted them, being engaged to breakfast with some young ladies. Johnson scolded him for ' leaving his social friends, to go and sit with a set of wretched un-ic/ca'd girls.' Garrick being told of this ramble, said to him smartly, ' I heard of your frolic... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...rest of the day: but Langton deserted them, being engaged to breakfast with some young ladies. Johnson scolded him for ' leaving his social friends, to go and sit with a set of wretched un-idedd girls.' Garrick being told of this ramble, said to him smartly, ' I heard of your frolic t'other... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1874 - 822 pages
...be remembered, deserted the other two, "being engaged to breakfast with some young ladies." Johnson scolded him for " leaving his social friends to go and sit with a eel of wretched unidea'd girls." He was an admirable reader aloud, bat though his readings surpassed,... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...present coolness between them • Boswell relates in his tenth chapter how Johnson scolded Langton for leaving "his social friends, to go and sit with a set of wretched unidea'd girls." t The personage was Lord Brougham, who at this time was too formidable for the poor girl to venture... | |
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... long, but walked down to the Thames, took a boat, and rowed to Billingsgate. Beauclerk and Johnson were so well pleased with their amusement, that they resolved to persevere in dissipation for the rest of the day: but Langton deserted them, being... 
