 What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable,...  Englische Studien - Page 601897Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the publick, which I here dare you to longer. More than this he cannot well require ; for,...Grammar, a Dictionary, and a History of our Langu JOHNSON.' 1 I have deposited it in the British Museum. 550 ••' JOHNSON'S FEARLESSNESS [1775 Mr.... | |
 | John Semple Smart - 1905 - 256 pages
...an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your...shall prove. You may print this if you will. " SAM. JOHNSON.2 "January 20, 1775." The robust doctor used to say that in controversy a man should try to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 458 pages
...attack, and again in allusion to one of Leigh Hunt's poems; and the concluding passage of the letter, "what I hear of your morals inclines me to pay regard...what you shall say, but to what you shall prove," is cited in a very plain-spoken letter which Byron wrote to his solicitor, Hanson, at a time when Lady... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 628 pages
...to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer.t are not so formidable : and what I hear of your morals...shall prove. You may print this if you will. " SAM. JOHNSON." * I have deposited it in the British Museum. t [Macpherson's translation of the " Iliad,"... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 378 pages
...an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer,1 are not so formidable : and what I hear of your morals...you shall prove. You may print this if you will." Dr. Johnson carried a big oaken cudgel with him, when he travelled in Scotland. Hume, on the other... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 364 pages
...an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer,1 are not so formidable : and what I hear of your morals...you shall prove. You may print this if you will." Dr. Johnson carried a big oaken cudgel with him, when he travelled in Scotland. Hume, on the other... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1908 - 382 pages
...III.— 15 would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer,...inclines me to pay regard — not to what you shall mit/, but to what you shall prove. You may print this if you will." Dr. Johnson carried a big oaken... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - 1908 - 441 pages
...imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I dare you to confute. Your rage I defy, your abilities, since your Homer,...your morals inclines me to pay regard not to what you say, but to what you shall prove. You may print this if you will. — Samuel Johnson, 20th January... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which 5 I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your...what you shall prove. You may print this if you will. 10 SAM. JOHNSON. TO MRS. THRALE Lichfleld, June 19, 1775. DEAR MADAM: I hope it is very true that Ralph... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, .which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable j and what 1 hear of your morals inelines me to pay regard not to what you shall say, but to what you... | |
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