 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 460 pages
...and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed equally, perhaps, of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from...Johnson, in religion and politics, in love and in hatred, was composed of such opposite and contradictory materials, as never before met in the human mind. This... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed equally, perhaps, of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from...Johnson, in religion and politics, in love and in hatred, was composed of such opposite and contradictory materials, as never before met in the human mind. This... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed equally, perhaps, of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from...Johnson, in religion and politics, in love and in hatred, was composed (1) [From " Letters of Anna Seward, written between the years 1784 and 1807."] of such... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed equally, perhaps, of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from...Johnson, in religion and politics, in love and in hatred, was composed of such opposite and contradictory materials, as never before met in the human mind. This... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed equally, perhaps, of cupboard^ love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from...Johnson, in religion and politics, in love and in hatred, was composed of such opposite and contradictory materials, as never before met in the human mind. This... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - Authors, English - 1861 - 406 pages
...This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed perhaps of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from...Johnson, in religion and politics, in love and in hatred, was composed of such opposite and contradictory materials, as never before met in the human mind. This... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - Authors, English - 1861 - 572 pages
..."This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed perhaps of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from...Johnson, in religion and politics, in love and in hatred, was composed of such opposite and contradictory materials as never before met in the human mind. This... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 pages
...This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed perhaps of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from...Johnson, in religion and politics, in love and in hatred, was composed of such opposite and contradictory materials, as never before met in the human mind. This... | |
 | 1861 - 624 pages
...coarsely, that ' his last and long-enduring homage for Mrs. Thrale was ' perhaps composed of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity ' tickled and gratified, from morn to night, by incessant homage.' On this hint Mr. Hay ward enlarges, nothing loth : — 'Johnson's affection for Mrs. Fiozzi was far... | |
 | Ireland - 1861 - 816 pages
...thesuperiorin womanly graces of Mrs. Montague has been not unfairly described as a mixture of "cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity, tickled and gratified from morn to night by incessant homage." In spite of Mr. BoswelTs sneers and inuendoes, Johnson's letters, yersicles, and reported sayings,... | |
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This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed equally, perhaps, of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from morn to night, by incessant homage. The two first ingredients are certainly oddly heterogeneous... 
