 | 1896 - 1024 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,...I should never hear it if it made me such a fool.' " Yet the Doctor must often have wished for susceptibility to an art which gave his friends such exquisite... | |
 | 1874 - 332 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...into the thickest part of the battle. Sir, said he (Johnson) I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool. And yet this same Johnson was the author,... | |
 | 1889 - 488 страници
...Boswell remarked to Johnson that it produced 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." But Johnson, who had no great ear for harmony, replied that if... | |
 | 1893 - 1236 страници
...curtain 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... | |
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... dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears; and of daring resolution, so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle. ' Sir, (said he,) I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool. 
