 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 pages
...to learn different perfections from different men. They concluded with delicate irony: Johnson shall teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd...learn to write : Copy his clear familiar style, And by the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite. they now give me up. They are satisfied :... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 328 pages
...and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, AndBeauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace : From him, 111 learn to write ; Copy his clear familiar style, And, from the roughness of his file, Grow, like... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...They concluded with delicate Irony : — • " Johnson «hall teach me how to place In fairest li^ht each borrow'd grace; From him I'll learn to write : Copy his clear familiar style, And by the roughne** of his fil» Grow, like hinurlf, polite," I know not whether Johnson ever saw the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...different perfections from différent men. They concluded with delicate Irony : — " Johnson shall ere this day to stop just where the Highland army did in 174*. JOHNSON: " leant to write : Copy his clear familiar style. And by the roughness of his fllff Crow, like himitlf,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think; Burke, how to speak; And Beauclerk to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest...borrow'd grace ; From him I'll learn to write : Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite."] Johnson told... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Bcauclerk to converse. I/et .Mmvu teach me how to place In lairest light each borrow'd grace ; From him I'll learn to write: Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite."] Johnson told... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse. (1) Sir Joshua Reynolds was born at Plympton in Devon. " Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace ; From him I '11 learn to write : Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 pages
...learn different perfections from different men. They concluded with delicate irony : " Johnson shall teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace : From him I '11 learn to write, Copy his clear familiar style, And by the roughness of his file, Grow, like himself,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...terse; Jones teach me modesty and Greek; Smith, bow to think; Bnrke, how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each bonrow'd grace: From him I'll learn to write: Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak , And Beauclerk to converse. " Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest...borrow'd grace ; From him I'll learn to write ; Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite." 343. Scepticism.... | |
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Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think; Burke, how to speak; And Beauclerk to converse. 
