 | James Boswell - 1901 - 540 страници
...have been a bear." " True, (answered the Earl, with a smile,) but he would have been a dancing bear." To obviate all the reflections which have gone round...alive has a more tender heart. He has nothing of the tear hu In 1769, so far as I can discover, the publick was favoured with nothing of Johnson's composition,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 526 страници
...have been a bear." " True, (answered the Earl, with a smile,) but he would have been a dancing bear." To obviate all the reflections which have gone round...manner : but no man alive has a more tender heart. He hat nothing of the bear but his skin." In 1769, so far as I can discover, the publick was favoured... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1901 - 312 страници
...Let me impress upon my readers a just and happy saying of my friend Goldsmith, who knew him [Johnson] well : ' Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his...tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin.' " (Hill's Boswell, 1887, ii. 66.) "That he made litlle fishes." — Page 194. " If you were to make... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 294 страници
...— Leslie Stephen's Life of Johnson. 12. Societies where he was treated with courtesy and kindness. "To obviate all the reflections which have gone round...tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin.' " — Boswell's Life of Johnson. " Reynolds said : 'Johnson had one virtue which I hold one of the... | |
 | Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1903 - 360 страници
...the finest poem that had appeared since the time of Pope. Goldsmith said of Johnson, " to be sure, he has a roughness in his manner; but no man alive has...tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin." Johnson, after his death, when some of the company, at a dinner at Keynolds's, were speaking of him... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 страници
...been a bear.' ' True, (answered the * Earl, with a smile,) but he would have been a dancing bear.' is more fully understood and illustrated. Indeed...any man's life, than not only relating all the most 1769 : JETAT. 60.] — IN 1769, so far as I can discover, the publick was favoured with nothing of... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1907 - 598 страници
...Let me impress upon my readers a just and happy saying of my friend Goldsmith, who knew him [Johnson] well: 'Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his...has a more tender heart. He has nothing of the bear Intt his thin.' " (Hill's Boswell, 1887, ii. 66.) " That he made little fishes talk vastfy lite whales."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...have been a bear." " True," answered the Earl, with a smile, " but he would have been a dancing bear." To obviate all the reflections which have gone round...tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin." 1 S«e the hard drawing of him in Churchill's ROSCIAD. — BOSWELL. CHAPTER III.— 1769. JOHNSON APPOINTED... | |
 | Gustav Wendt - 1911 - 352 страници
...intimacy, we were so nearly of a humour that we could associate with ease to both. (RL Stevenson.) 4. Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner;...more tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but the skin. (Boswell.) 5. To an extent every musician is a poet, but Schumann was more of one than any... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 страници
...great Bear's " prejudices, his frequent brutality of speech, his fits of moroseness and bad temper: "Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner,...tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin." And as in Goldsmith's affection for Johnson there was always a touch of reverence as for an acknowledged... | |
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True, (answered the Earl, with a smile,) but he would have been a dancing bear." To obviate all the reflections which have gone round the world to Johnson's prejudice, by applying to him the epithet of a bear, let me impress upon my readers a just and... 
