 | Henry Grey Graham - 1901 - 536 trang
...munch. Was there ever such a home ? " Williams hates everybody," groaned the doctor to Mrs. Thrale. " Levett hates Desmoulins and does not love Williams. Desmoulins hates them both, and Polly loves none of them." l Much as the life in London bulks in Boswell's career, it after all... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 574 trang
...them, they were all obnoxious to each other. " Williams," he wrote to Mrs. Thrale, " hates everybody; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams...; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them."4 Levett hated Desmoulins so much that he begged Johnson to turn her out of doors. Poll was Miss... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 trang
...He summed up their relations in a letter to Mrs. Thrale. " Williams," he says, " hates everybody ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll (Miss Carmichael) loves none of them." Frank Barber complained of Miss Williams's authority, and Miss... | |
 | Violet Brooke-Hunt - 1902 - 442 trang
...dreaded going home. "Williams hates everybody," he wrote to his really good friends, the Thrales. " Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll Carmichael loves none of them." And yet this "rugged old giant," as he has been called, provided for... | |
 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 542 trang
...Dr. Johnson has himself sketched, in a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Thrale : ' Williams hates everybody ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both; Poll (Miss Carmichael) loves none of them." These old waifs and strays were not, apparently, even always... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 trang
...Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale 1 : ! 9dm oo > c > /~ r O] = M z ... C W Б { { e / ƹ >{C l Ӂ N[ iǾ| !碛 Z" JAMBS BOSWELL, ESQ. 'DEAR SIR, — It is indeed a long time since I wrote, and I think you have some... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 trang
...Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale ' : 'Williams hates every body ; Levett hates Desmoulins,...love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll 2 loves none of them.' 'To JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. 'DEAR SIB, — It is indeed a long time since I wrote,... | |
 | Rose Barton - 1904 - 480 trang
...warm heart." In writing to Mr and Mrs Thrale, he says of these ladies, " Williams hates everybody ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both, and Poll Carmichael loves none of them." The famous prison of Bridewell, which stood until 1863 in... | |
 | Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1906 - 538 trang
...Witness his description of that mixed eleemosynary manage of his, where " Williams hates everybody; Levett hates Desmoulins and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both." Garrick, too, could be genuinely charitable, if less affectionately so, to anyone who had the claim... | |
 | Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1906 - 542 trang
...Witness his description of that mixed eleemosynary manage of his, where " Williams hates everybody; Levett hates Desmoulins and does not love Williams; Desmoulins hates them both." Garrick, too, could be genuinely charitable, if less affectionately so, to anyone who had the claim... | |
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... perpetual jarring of those whom he charitably accommodated under his roof. He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females, and call them his Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters... 
