 | 1900 - 674 pages
..." I cannot now curse the House of Hanover," was his phrase on another occasion : " but I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover and drinking...amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year." In truth, his Jacobitism was by this time, whatever it had once been, nothing more than a humorous... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
..." I cannot now curse the House of Hanover," was his phrase on another occasion : " but I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover and drinking...amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year." In truth, his Jacobitism was by this time, whatever it had once been, nothing more than a humorous... | |
 | 1905 - 718 pages
...rving James's health in the wine that King George gives me money to pay for. But, sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover, and...amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year. No ; much though one would like to picture the ponderous figure of Dr. Johnson in military attire,... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott - English literature - 1904 - 334 pages
...strong common sense naturally preferred so substantial a reality as three hundred a year to the empty pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover and drinking King James's health. On the receipt of his pension, Johnson practically struck work. He had yet more [168] than twenty years... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...curse the House of Hanover," he said in appreciative reference to his pension ; " but I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover and drinking King James's Health, all amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year." 284. Dominant in the Club. — No longer driven... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Artists - 1906 - 374 pages
...drink King James's health in the wine that King George gives me money to pay for. But sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover and drinking King James's health, are amply balanced by three hundred pounds a year." The addition of this sum to his earnings gave him not only... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...curse the House of Hanover," he said in appreciative reference to his pension ; " but I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover and drinking King James's Health, all amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year." 284. Dominant in the Club. — No longer driven... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 628 pages
...King James's health in the wine that King George gives me money to pay for. But, Sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover, and...drinking King James's health, are amply overbalanced by £300 a year." * When I mentioned the same idle clamour to him several years afterwards, he said, with... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 570 pages
...King James's health in the wine that King George gives me money to pay for. But, Sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the house of Hanover, and...imputed to him by the world, merely for the purpose of showing how dexterously he could repel an attack, even though he were placed in the most disadvantageous... | |
 | Grolier Club - 1909 - 130 pages
...James's health, in the wine that King George gives me the money to pay for. But, sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the House of Hanover, and drinking King James's health, are amply compensated for by three hundred pounds a year." 6 Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae . . . Londini:... | |
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I cannot now curse (smiling) the house of Hanover ; nor would it be decent for me to drink king James's health in the wine that king George gives me money to pay for. But, sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the house of Hanover, and drinking king... 
