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" I believe they might be good beings, but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden. "
The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions ... - Page 191
by James Boswell - 1807
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Breeches. Banty Tim. (See also SWIFT) 4 A curst cow hath short horns. HEBBERT— Jacula Pnidentum. 6 riœ. LXV. 10 Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens SAMUEL JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of Johnson. (1772) e The friendly cow all red and white, I love with...
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Boswell's Johnson: The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1923 - 372 pages
...were examined, and found to be mighty ignorant fellows." BOSWELL. "But, was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings?" JOHNSON....to repeat this as an illustration uncommonly happy. Memorable Things While I remained in London this spring, I was with him at several other times, both...
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A History of the University of Oxford, Volume 3

Sir Charles Edward Mallet - 1927 - 604 pages
...thought the sentence " extremely just and proper." " BOSWELL. ' But, was it not hard. Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings ? ' JOHNSON....animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.' " * So religious enthusiasm was driven out of the gardens of Oxford for half-a-century to come. IIl...
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Oxford in English Literature: The Making, and Undoing, of 'the English Athens'

John Dougill - Authors, English - 1998 - 416 pages
...university he expressed his approval, though Boswell objected that they were 'good beings'. 'Sir,' replied Johnson, 'I believe they might be good beings; but...animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.' The historical record of Oxford in this period might be a matter of contention, but literary representations...
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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

Ignatius Sancho - History - 1998 - 388 pages
...BOSWELL. "But, was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings?" JOHNSON. "Sir, I believe they might be good beings; but they were...animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden." 4 Perhaps Henry William Bunbury. LETTER XI 1 As letters XV and XVI (vol. I) indicate, the unidentified...
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Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson

Thomas M. Curley - Judges - 1998 - 728 pages
...learned but in an University? Sir, they were examined, and found to be mighty ignorant fellows. ... I believe they might be good beings. But they were...good animal in the field. But we turn her out of a garden."Although Johnson viewed the ouster of the Methodists as a vindication of Anglican orthodoxy,...
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Oxford

Jan Morris - Cities and towns - 2001 - 316 pages
...from the University in 1768, he thoroughly approved : they might be perfectly good beings, indeed, but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford — 'a cow is a very good animal in a field; but we turn her out of a garden'. Too late did it dawn upon the city what a prodigy it had...
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A Life of James Boswell

Peter Martin - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 644 pages
...for preaching their doctrine. Boswell maintained they were 'good beings', to which Johnson shot back, 'But they were not fit to be in the University of...animal in the field. But we turn her out of a garden.' Aware that Johnson was careful never to drink wine, he then opened another subject by defending 'convivial'...
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A New Way to Test Your English

154 pages
...were 80 — whether 81 — I invited you, Paul, to come. 82 — Please como here, my friend. 83 — "A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." 84 — He said, "I hate you." 85 — What a fool I have been! 86 — Tell me where you live, John....
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The Grotonian, Volume 32

1915 - 444 pages
...really utterly out of place in a periodical devoted to publishing the best that a school can produce. "A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of the garden." THE GROTONIAN acknowledges with thanks :The Abbott Observer, The Academy Journal, The...
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