 | James Boswell - 1821 - 398 pages
...coxcomb, maintains, that all scholars are blockheads on account of their scholarship. , . J. BOSWELL.] striking proof of the fallacy of appearances, and...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...Adams, he said, " Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. 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 ; so I disgregarded all power and all authority." On a visit to Oxford, three-and-twenty years after he had... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...Padua. — And I'll mind my business. For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads." 5 Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present renerable master of... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...Padua. — And I'll mind my business. For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads." 5 Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 292 pages
...sir (said he to Mr. Boswell), 1 was mad and violent. It was hitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' He struggled through another year, and had some intention of applying himself to either the civil or... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 pages
...he was then depressed by poverty, and irritated by disease. When I mentioned to him this account aa given me by Dr. Adams, he said, " Ah, Sir, I was mad...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...to Padua. — And I'll mind my business. For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheadsq." Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight niy hould be the directing soul and vex ing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him sav, what ought to be... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 560 pages
...Pembroke, he 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...; so I disregarded all power, and all authority." Even such a rebel against college discipline Swift appears to have been, under similar circumstances... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 pages
...Pembroke, he 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...wit; so I disregarded all power, and all authority." Even such a rebel against college discipline Swift appears to have been, under similar circumstances... | |
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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... 
