| Percy Fitzgerald - 1891 - 376 страници
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ; and of daring...should never hear it, if it made me such a fool.' ' Once Johnson's attack was too outrageous to be recorded, even by Mr. Boswell. He says it was " owing... | |
| 1892 - 672 страници
...nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was icady to shed tears; and of daring resolution, so that I...into the thickest part of the battle. Sir, said he (Johnson) I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool." With this comforting apology for those... | |
| 1893 - 956 страници
...certain strains of music, as being so great as to make him ready to shed tears. " Sir," he replied, " I should never hear it if it made me such a fool." Indeed, unless his own heart were touched, he was intolerant of what he was inclined to consider an... | |
| James Samuel Stone - 1894 - 238 страници
...mind either pathetic dejection so that he was ready to shed tears, or daring resolution so that he was inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle, "Sir," he said, "I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool." But much as one would like to have been... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1897 - 526 страници
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears, and of daring resolution,...rush into the thickest part of the battle." " Sir," was the answer, " I should never hear it if it made me such a fool." Goethe seems to have been as little... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 928 страници
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, remove it ; and desire you to propose the question...SAM. JOHNSON." "то MR CAVE. [No date.] "SIR, " music, I am satisfied, Is owing to the association of ideas. That air, which instantly and irresistibly... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 546 страници
...often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetick dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ; and of daring...that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of a battle. " Sir (said he,) I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool." Much of the effect of... | |
| 1900 - 674 страници
...Johnson, affected him intensely, producing in his mind " alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears, and of daring resolution so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest of the [purely hypothetical] battle." " Sir," replied Johnson, " I should never hear it, if it made... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1901 - 214 страници
...Johnson, affected him intensely, producing in hia mind " alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears, and of daring resolution no that I was inclined to rush into the thickest of the [purely hypothetical] battle." " Sir," replied... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 страници
...Johnson, affected him intensely, producing in his mind " alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears, and of daring resolution so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest of the [purely hypothetical] battle." " Sir," replied Johnson, " I should never hear it, if it made... | |
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