 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Anthologies - 1906 - 352 pages
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' JAMES BOSWELL To Mr. Lawrence T AWRENCE of vertuous Father vertuous Son, -*— ' Now that the Fields... | |
 | Edward Latham - Quotations - 1906 - 338 pages
...— to Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92). See A friend may be often found and lost &c. Preceded by "If ä man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...life, he will soon find himself left alone." A man who attempts to read all the new productions, must do as the fleas do- skip. SAMUEL ROGF.RS (1763-1855).... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 628 pages
...dull. 12— (2279) The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate, was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon rind himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.'" The celebrated... | |
 | Friendship - 1907 - 184 pages
...soothe, in sorrow's languid hour, The sinking soul. — Sadi. TF a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself...sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. — Johnson. GULLY was the first who observed that friendship improves happiness and , abates misery,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...The instability of friendship. Johnson always laments it. ' If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself...left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in good repair' (Life 1. 300). He frequently discussed it in hia essays. See Rambler 40, 64, 99, 160;... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 968 pages
...steadily with his fame till he came to know almost everyone worth knowing in London. He once said: "If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. " And we now think of him sitting with... | |
 | Manmathanātha Ghosha - Newspaper editors - 1911 - 264 pages
...To face page 77. THE LIFE OF GRISH CHUNDER GHOSE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. DR. JOHNSON once remarked to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. He should keep his friendship in constant repair." This pithy observation of the sage of Lichfield... | |
 | Edwin Osgood Grover - Friendship - 1911 - 72 pages
...assist him in his necessities. — Italian Proverb J» Jt Jt IF a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair. — Samuel Johnson Jf it Jt you write a friendly letter? ;t now It... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - English literature - 1915 - 346 pages
...did not shelter them no one else would, and they would be lost for want." But he had other reasons. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds : " If a man does not...A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."2 "Sir," he said to Boswell, " I love the acquaintance of young people ; because, in the first... | |
 | James Boswell - Poets, English - 1917 - 612 pages
...and his case at forty-five was singularly unhappy, unless the circle of his friends was very narrow. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 'If a man does not...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' In July this year he had formed some scheme of mental improvement, the particular purpose of which... | |
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If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' The celebrated Mr Wilkes, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his,... 
