 | Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi - Authors, English - 1788 - 454 pages
...great deal of fallacy in this world. I hope you do not teach the company wholly to forfake poor Thomas. The want of company is an inconvenience, but Mr. Cumberland is a million. Make the moft of what you have. Send my mafter out to hunt in the morning, and to walk the rooms in the evening;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pages
...Mrs. Thrale," Vol. II. p. 68, thus fpeaks of that karned, ingenious, and accomplifhed gentleman : " The want of company is an inconvenience : but Mr, Cumberland is a million." THE LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON. I fhall now fulfil my promifc of exhibiting fpecimens of various forts of... | |
 | William Mudford - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 662 pages
...powers. In Mrs. Piozzi's collection of his letters, there is one, (Letter CCXV.) in which he says, " the want of company is an inconvenience, but Mr. Cumberland is a million." This was a brief but emphatic commendation ; and is entitled to much consideration, when we consider... | |
 | William Mudford - 1812 - 348 pages
...powers. In Mrs. Piozzi's collection of his letters, there is one, (Letter CCXV.) in which he says, " the want of company is an inconvenience, but Mr. Cumberland is a million." This was a brief but emphatic commendation ; and is entitled to much consideration, when we consider... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 pages
...Mrs. Thrale," Vol. II. p. 68, thus speaks of that learned, ingenious, and accomplished gentleman: " The want of company is an inconvenience, but Mr. Cumberland is a million." I shall now fulfil my promise of exhibiting specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's style.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1831 - 570 pages
...to Mrs. Thrale," vol. ii. p. 68, thus speaks of that learned, ingenious, and accomplished gentleman: "The want of company is an inconvenience, but Mr. Cumberland is a million." — BOSWELL. [The following is Mr. Cumberland's own evidence on the points alluded to by Mr. Boswell... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...Mrs. Thrale," vol. ii. p. 08, thus speaks of that, learned, ingenious, and accomplished gentleman: "The want of company is an inconvenience, but Mr. Cumberland is a million." — BOSWELL. [The following is Mr. Cumberland's own evidence on the points alluded to by Mr. Boswell... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...Mrs. Thrale," vol. ii. p. 68, thus speaks of that learned, ingenious, and accomplished gentleman : " The want of company is an inconvenience, but Mr. Cumberland is a million." — BOSWELL. might comprise all the observations I could make upon his faults, while volumes would... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 356 pages
...IN ITS PROPER LIGHT. by Dr. Johnson to be a ' learned, ingenious, accomplished gentleman,' adding, the ' want of company is an inconvenience, but Mr. Cumberland is a million :' in spite of this eulogium, Cumberland has betrayed in his own autobiography unbounded vanity, worldliness,... | |
 | Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - Fiction - 1861 - 522 pages
...Cumberland himself, proclaimed by Dr. Johnson to be a " learned, ingenious, accomplished gentleman," adding, the " want of company is an inconvenience, but Mr. Cumberland is a million"—in spite of this eulogium, Cumberland has betrayed in his own autobiography unbounded vanity,... | |
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Mr. Cumberland assures me, that he was always treated with great courtesy by Dr. Johnson, who, in his Letters to Mrs. Thrale, vol. ii. p. 68 thus speaks of that learned, ingenious, and accomplished gentleman: The want of company is an inconvenience: but... 
