 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...ventured to fay, " Too fine for fuch a poem :• — a poem on what ?" JOHNSON, (with a difdainful look,) " Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadft thou lived in thofe days! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerftaff... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Anecdotes - 1798 - 464 pages
...company ventured to fay, " Too fine for fuch a poem : a poem on what ?" — JOHNSON (with a difdainful look). " Why, on dunces' It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadft/£o« lived in thofe days ! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the Dunciad. While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines one of the company ventured to say, "...was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst tfiou lived in those days ! It is not worth whil,e being a dunce now, when there are no wits." Bickerstaff... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the Dunciad.—While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for sueh a poem: a poem on what?"—JOHNSON (with a disdainful look). " Why, on dunces. It was worth while... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the Dunciad.J While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, "...dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, had st tliuu lived in those days ! It is not worth while being a dunce now, when there are no wits."... | |
 | John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...melodious manner, the concluding lines of the Dunciad. — While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, "...peculiar circumstance, that Pope's fame was higher when be was alive than it was then. Johnson said, his Pastorals were poor things, though the versification... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...manner, the concluding lines of the Dnnciad.J While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, oue of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem: — a poem on what?" HINSON. (with a disdainful look,) " Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 372 pages
...melodious manner, the concluding lines of the Dunciad. While he was talking loudly in praise of these lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poemi — a poem on what ?" JOHNSON. (with a disdainful look,) " Why, on dunces. It was worth while... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...melodious manner, the concluding lines of the Dunciad. While he was talking loudly in praise of these lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such n poem : — a poem on what J" JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,) " Why, on dunces. It was worth while... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...melodious manner, the concluding lints of the Dunciad. While he was talking loudly in praise of these lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine...was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, sir, hadst thott lived in those days ! — It is now, when there are no wits." served, as a peculiar circumstance,... | |
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While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company ventured to say, " Too fine for such a poem: — a poem on what?" JOHNSON, (with a disdainful look,) "Why, on dunces. It was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived... 
