 | 1894 - 854 páginas
...quotation : — Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which lie should not have been could I have foreseen it. After...many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an tmbribed oracle, he vented his errand : "Had I seen Dr. Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets' ?" I said slightly,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1858 - 636 páginas
...what you tell me, that it is in the ' Memoirs of Hollis.' Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which he should...many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an uubribed oracle, he vented his errand. " Had I seen Dr. Johnson's ' Lives of the Poets ?' " I said,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1880 - 622 páginas
...Hollis.' Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which ho should not have been, could I have foreseen it. After...Johnson's ' Lives of the Poets ?' " I said, slightly, " Xo, not yet ;" and so overlaid his whole impertinence. As soon as he could recover himself, with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 páginas
...On May 22 Horace Walpole wrote (Letters, viii. 44) : — ' Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which he should...not yet ; " and so overlaid his whole impertinence.' 4 See ante, iii. 1. 5 See ante, ii. 47, note 2 ; '352, note 1 ; and iii. 376, for explanations of like... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 páginas
...C. R. Leslie,\. 155. Walpole (Letters,v\\\. 44) says :—' Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which he should...answers as an unbribed oracle, he vented his errand.' ' Walpole wrote (Letters, vi. 44):— 'If The School for Wives and The Christmas Tale were laid to... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1891 - 652 páginas
...what you tell me, that it is in the ' Memoirs of Hollis.' Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which he should...errand. " Had I seen Dr. Johnson's ' Lives of the Poets P'" I said, slightly, " No, not yet;" and so overlaid his whole impertinence. As soon as he could recover... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 548 páginas
...CR Leslie, i. 155. Walpole (Letters, viii. 44) says :— ' Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which he should...many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an unbribcd oracle, he vented his errand.' ' Walpole wrote (Letters, vi. 44) : — •' If The School... | |
 | 1894 - 1096 páginas
...quotation : Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which ha should not have been could I have foreseen it. After...not yet ; ' and so overlaid his whole impertinence. There is nothing wanting'here to the letter-writer's art. Slightly as it is sketched, many pages of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1894 - 906 páginas
...Arlington Street that it is hard to refrain from quotation : Boswell, that quintessence of bnsybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which he should...many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an nnbribed oracle, he vented his errand : " Had I seen Dr. Johnson's Lives of the foelst" I said, slightly,... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1895 - 376 páginas
...Arlington Street that it is hard to refrain from quotation : — Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which he should..." Had I seen Dr Johnson's ' Lives of the Poets "I" I said, slightly, " No, not yet "; and so overlaid his whole impertinence. There is nothing wanting... | |
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Boswell, that quintessence of busybodies, called on me last week, and was let in, which he should not have been could I have foreseen it. After tapping many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an unbribed oracle, he vented his errand... 
