 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 страници
...predominance of his private feelings in the composition of this work, than any now to be found in it. " incitement to transgress its precepts, I can conceive...trust him ; and I should certainly not trust him wit GOWEB.' Thus it went to the press : but the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out.*1 Let it,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 страници
...predominance of his private feelings in the composition of this work, than any now to be found in it. " You know, sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite...deserts to the enemy, a revolter,' I added, Sometimes we nay a GOWER. Thus it went to the press : but the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out."(')... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 422 страници
...Boswell another instance of his indulgence of private feelings, at the expense of living characters. " You know, Sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite...the enemy, a revolter, I added, sometimes we say a (Sower. Thus it went to press, but the printer* had more wit than I,, and struck it out." The same... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 страници
...predominance of his private feelings in the composition of this work, than any now to be found in it. " Yon know, sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word Senegado, after telling that it meant ' one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter,' I added, Sometimes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 страници
...predominance of his private feelings in the composition of this work, than any now to be found in it. " You know, sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite...the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out. It is a sad saying, that " most of those whom he wished to please had sunk into the grave ; " and his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 страници
...predominance of hie private feeling* in the composition of this work, than any now to be found in it. " You know, sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite...'one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter,' I added, Sometime! tre toy a GOWEH.' Thus it went to the press : but the printer had more wit than I, and struck... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 страници
...predominance of his private feelings in the composition of this work, than any now to be found in it. "You know, sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word Renegade, after telling that it meant ' one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter,' I added, Sometimes... | |
 | John Langton Sanford, Meredith White Townsend - 1865 - 406 страници
...man was considered in his own time a turncoat — so great a turncoat that Johnson said to Boswell, " When I came to the word ' renegado,' after telling...the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out." The man, however, who thus escaped an unenviable immortality seems to have been merely one of those... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 страници
...predominance of his private fcelings in the composition of this work, than any now to be found in it. ' You know, sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite...deserts to the enemy, a revolter," I added, Sometimes we lay a GOWEE. Thus it went to the press ; but the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out.' Let... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 страници
...it. ' You know, sir, Lord Gowcr forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word renegade, after telling that it meant "one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter," I added, Sometimes we lay a GOWER. Thus it went to the press ; but the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out.' Let... | |
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Talking to me upon this subject when we were at Ashbourne in 1777, he mentioned a still stronger instance of the predominance of his private feelings in the composition of this work than any now to be found in it. "You know, sir, Lord Gower forsook the... 
