 | William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 212 страници
...he himself had heard her express. After quoting her published complaint that Johnson's company was "terrifying in the first years of our friendship, and irksome in the last," he comments: Alas! how different is this from the declarations which I have heard Mrs. Thrale make... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 страници
...own to have been terrifying in the first years of our friendship, and irksome in the last; nor could I pretend to support it without help, when my coadjutor...house afforded to his uneasy fancies, and to the pains we took to sooth or repress them, the world is perhaps indebted for the three political pamphlets,... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 страници
...which he contentedly bore his share for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson; but the perpetual confinement I will own...years of our friendship, and irksome in the last; nor could I pretend to support it without help, when my coadjutor was no more. To the assistance we gave... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 302 страници
...which he contentedly bore his share for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson; but the perpetual confinement I will own...years of our friendship and irksome in the last. Nor could I pretend to support it without help, when my coadjutor was no more. To the assistance we gave... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2000 - 270 страници
...which he contentedly bore his share for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr. Johnson; but the perpetual confinement I will own...years of our friendship, and irksome in the last; nor could I pretend to support it without help, when my coadjutor was no more. To the assistance we gave... | |
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Veneration for his virtue, reverence for his talents, delight in his conversation, and habitual endurance of a yoke my husband first put upon me, and of which he contentedly bore his share for sixteen or seventeen years, made me go on so long with Mr.... 
