 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 538 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." Talking on the... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - Authors, English - 1884 - 490 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds. * A humorous attempt of Garrick's to read one of Cumberland's odes backwards. " Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace ; From him I'll leam to write ; Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1885 - 498 pages
...on 27 Dec. 1775, after referring to Barnard's well-known verses, which conclude : — Johnson shall teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd...to write, — Copy his clear, familiar style, And. by the roughness of his file. Grow, like himself, polite. [Boswell's Johnson, ed. Croker (1876), ix.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1887 - 254 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...roughness of his file Grow like himself — polite.' (Northcote's Life of Reynolds, 2nd ed., 1819, i. 221.) According to Cumberland (Memoirs, 1807, i. 370),... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 466 pages
...teach me modesty—and Greek ; Smith how to think; Burke how to Burk (sic) speak, And Beauclerk to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrowed grace, From him I'll learn to write ; free and easy Copy his clear and easy style, clear familiar... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 652 pages
...teach me modesty — and Greek ; Smith how to think ; Burke how to Burk (sic) speak, And Beauclerk to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrowed grace, From him I'll learn to write ; free and easy Copy his clear and easy style, clear familiar... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 544 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...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.' " Mr. Boswell's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pages
...verses, in himself to learn different perfections from different with delicate irony : '; " Johnson shall teach me how to place ' In fairest light each borrow'd...I'll learn to write, (Copy his clear familiar style, lAnd, by the roughness of his file, I Grow, like himself, polite." kindness. He whose inclination prompts... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 pages
...; 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. Dr. Barnard of... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1891 - 548 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...learn to write; Copy his clear familiar style, And by the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite.' I know not whether Johnson ever saw the poem,... | |
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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. 
