 | George Otto Trevelyan - Fine bindings - 1876 - 502 pages
...you. Nothing. Lord Grey sent for me 1 Boswell relates in his tenth chapter how Johnson scolded Langton for leaving " his social friends, to go and sit with a set of wretched unidoa'd girla." to speak about a matter of importance, which must be strictly private.' " November... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 386 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 un-idea'd girls.'" Shortly after Beauclerk must have left college, we learn by a letter of Mrs. Montague's that this lively... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 376 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 tin-idea' d girls.'" Shortly after Beauclerk must have left college, we learn by a letter of Mrs. Montague's... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 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-idecfd girls." Garrick being told of this ramble, said to him, smartly, "I heard of your frolic... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 952 pages
...engagement to breakfast with some young ladles ; whereupon the great moralist reproached him with " leaving his social friends to go and sit with a set of wretched tm-ifea'd girls." This madeap freak of the great lexicographer made a sensation, as may well be supposed,... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...Billingsgate, where 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, uu-idead girls." I am glad that he thanks God for any thing. When told that Mr. Andrew Millar, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 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.... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Great Britain - 1883 - 424 pages
...some young ladies, determined to leave them, at which conduct the doctor scolded him for deserting ' his social friends to go and sit with a set of wretched un-idead girls.' But, though Johnson readily joined in such a harmless prank as this, he did not shut his eyes to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1885 - 440 pages
...some young ladies, determined to leave them, at which conduct the doctor scolded him for deserting 'his social friends to go and sit with a set of wretched un-idecfd girls.' But, though Johnson readily joined in such a. harmless prank as this, he did not... | |
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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... 
