 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...because, dearest, yon're a dunce.' When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness, 'Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said iu'" — Ibid. t A passage or two from Sterne's " Sermons " may not be without interest here. Is not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 540 pages
...because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought...Another evening Johnson's kind indulgence towards me 1 Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet, author of tracts relating to natural history, &c. He died Dec. 15, 1771,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pages
...because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought...Another evening Johnson's kind indulgence towards me 1 Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet, author of tracts relating to natural history, &c. He died Dec. 15, 1771,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pages
...because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought...Another evening Johnson's kind indulgence towards me 1 Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet, author of tracts relating to natural history, &c. He died Dec. 15, 1771,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...because, dearest, you're a dunce.' When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness, ' Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' " — Ibid. * A passage or two from Sterne's "Sermons" may not be without interest here. Is not the... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1891 - 548 pages
...; I should not have even deigned to look at them had I been at large." ' Cradock's Memoirs, p. 208. truth and politeness, ' Madam, if I had thought so,...custom, had circulated the bottle very freely. Lord Graham1 and I went together to Miss Monckton's, where I certainly was in extraordinary spirits, and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 474 pages
...because, dearest, you 're a dunce.' When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness, ' Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' " — Ibid. 1 A passage or two from Sterne's " Sermons " may not be without interest here. Is not the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1896 - 510 pages
...because, dearest, you 're a dunce.' When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness, ' Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' " — Ibid. 1 A passage or two from Sterne's " Sermons " may not be without interest here. Is not the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 500 pages
...because, 'dearest, you are a dunce.' When she some time afterwards 'mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, ' ' Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.' " Boswell, who tells the story, puts the date at 1781. A year later, Madame d'Arblay, in her Diary... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...because, dearest, you are a dunce !" When she mentioned this to him some time afterwards he replied : " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it." The truth could not be more neatly put. Boswell notes, with some surprise, that when Johnson dined... | |
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I am sure (said she) they have affected me" — " Why (said Johnson, smiling, and rolling himself about,) that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness ; " Madam,... 
