 | 1905 - 648 pages
...to place In fairest light each borrowed 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." Richard Brinsley Sheridan, born in Dublin, September, 1751, died in London, July, 1816, was grandson... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1906 - 362 pages
...modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse. OOLDSM1TII I Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light,...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 - Authors, English - 1907 - 730 pages
...concluded with delicate irony: "Johnson shall teach me bow to place In fairest light each borrowed grace ; From him I'll 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 548 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...to place In fairest light each borrowed grace, Prom him I'll learn to write : Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite.— Bishop Barnard. Boswell gives at the end of his Life ' specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's... | |
 | James Boswell - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1925 - 104 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...to write : " Copy his clear familiar style, " And by the roughness of his file, " Grow—like himself—polite" I know not if Johnson ever saw the Poem,... | |
 | James Boswell - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1925 - 102 pages
...supposed himself to learn different perfections from different men. They concluded with delicate irony: " From him I'll learn to write : " Copy his clear familiar style, " And by the roughness of his file, " Johnson shall teach me how to place, " In fairest light each borrow'd... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1923 - 784 pages
...terse : Jones teach me Modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place, In fairest...roughness of his file, Grow like himself — polite.' It is pleasant to think, however, that Boswell records that Johnson and Barnard afterwards became the... | |
 | English essays - 1776 - 782 pages
...think, Burke how to i. ,-. , And Beauclerc to converfe. Let Johnfon teach me how to place, In faired light, each borrow'd grace, From him I'll learn to write ; Copy his clear familiar Kyle, And from the roughnefs of his file, Grow like bimfitf—fttiu. Tin CONSULTATION. '"THREE Doflon,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1776 - 626 pages
...think, Burke how to fpeak. And Beauclerk to converfe. Let Johnfon teach me how to place, In fan eft light, each borrow'd grace. From him I'll learn to write; Copy his clear familiar ftyle, And, from the roughnefs of his file, Grow like bimfclf— folitc. Tbt REIGN of WINTER. WHEN... | |
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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. 
