 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1829 - 388 pages
...Pembroke, be answered, " Ah ! Sir, I was mad and violent It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so 1 disregarded all power, and all authority." Even such a rebel against college discipline Swift appears... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...Taste," has the same thought : -• Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the worst." — BOSwELL. Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke...all power and all authority." The Bishop of Dromore [Percy] observes in a letter to me, " The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...of Taste," has the same thought : " Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the worst." — BOSWEJLL. Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke...all power and all authority." The Bishop of Dromore [Percy] observes in a letter to me, " The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...then depressed by poverty, and irritated by disease. When I mentioned to him this account as given rne by Dr. Adams, he said, " Ah, sir, I was mad and violent....all power and all authority." The Bishop of Dromore [Percy] observes in a letter to me, " The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - Oxford (England) - 1831 - 298 pages
...I was mad and violent ; it was bitterness which they mistook for frolic; I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and authority." — The bishop of Dromore observes to me in a letter, — " I have heard from some of his... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 pages
...was mad and violent; it was bitterness which they mistook for frolic; I was miserably poor, and S 2 thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and authority.'—The bishop of Dromore observes to me in a letter,—' I have heard from some of his contemporaries,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...and violent. It was bitlerness which they mistook for frolick. I was miserably poor, and I Ihought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I...all power and all authority." The Bishop of Dromore [Percy] observes in a letter to me, " The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...Roswell, " Ah 1 sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolick. 1 xvas miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my...literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and aft KUthoritv." It was his poverty, thus alluded to, that, about 1730, threw him into that state of... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 532 pages
...Ah! sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably popr, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and...wit; so I disregarded all power, and all authority." Even such a rebel against college discipline Swift appears to have been, under similar circumstances... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1834 - 600 pages
...the very words which explain the whole : — ' It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic — I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit.' (Croker's Boswell, vol. i., p. 43.) There is hardly an instance amongst his innumerable larcenies from... | |
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But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of appearances, and how little any of us know of the real internal state even of those whom we see most frequently; for the truth is, that he was then depressed by poverty, and irritated by disease. When I mentioned... 
