 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 trang
...charity and worried his life out. For, as he says in one of his! letters : Williams hates everybody : Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams...Desmoulins hates them both. Poll loves none of them.* Poll, it may be observed, was particularly trying. " I took to Poll," he said to Mrs. Thrale, " very... | |
 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 trang
...one of the happiest I have ever heard," — Vol. V, p. 40, 1778— ait. 69 "Williams hates everybody; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams: Desmoulins hates them both; Poll1 loves none of them." 2 Vol. V, p. 70. 1779 — SA. 70 Johnson: "Garrick was a very good man,... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1916 - 824 trang
...Mrs. Thrale in playful mood, telling of his household troubles, he says, " Williams hates everybody; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams;...Desmoulins hates them both; Poll loves none of them." And he, the great, gruff and mighty Ursa Major, listened to all their woes, caring for them in sickness,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 trang
...them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : "Williams hates everybody ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams...Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them." This year, Johnson gave the world a luminous proof that the vigor of his mind in all its faculties,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 612 trang
...Mrs. Thrale: 'Williams hates every body; Levett hates Desmou1779] PART OF THE LIVES PUBLISHED 415 Ens, and does not love Williams; Desmoulins hates them both; Poll * loves none of them.' 2 In 1779, Johnson gave the world a luminous proof that the vigour of his mind in all its faculties,... | |
 | Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery - 1921 - 390 trang
...Carmichael, whom Johnson described as "a dull slut." " Williams," he once wrote, " hates everybody ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams...Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them." This was the domestic circle of that great intellect. Surely we may say that his heart was even greater,... | |
 | A. Edward Newton - 1923 - 168 trang
...household? Dr. JOHNSON. Sir, we have tolerable concord at home but no love. Williams hates everybody. Levett hates Desmoulins and does not love Williams....Desmoulins hates them both. Poll loves none of them. Mr. BOSWELL. I cannot understand, sir, how you can surround yourself with such necessitous and undeserving... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1925 - 826 trang
...Swinfen), and Miss Carmichael (Poll). They were not an amicable party — ' Williams hates everybody ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams...Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them.' Johnson's account of his kitchen perhaps explains his love for club life. ' And pray who is the clerk... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 392 trang
...Mrs. Thrale in playful mood, telling of his household troubles, he says, " Williams hates everybody; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams;...Desmoulins hates them both; Poll loves none of them." And he, the great, gruff and mighty Ursa Major, listened to all their woes, caring for them in sickness,... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 trang
...seraglio. It was not a happy family. " Williams," Johnson once wrote to Mrs. Thrale, " hates everybody ; Levett hates Desmoulins and does not love Williams; Desmoulins hates them both; Poll" — that is, Miss Carmichael — " loves none of them." Nor did any of his dependants, save perhaps... | |
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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... 
