 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 trang
...that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could sing the...the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about [1700 the Argonauts?" "Sir (said the boy), I would give what I have." Johnson was much pleased with... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 trang
...that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could sing the...Argonauts?" "Sir," said the boy, "I would give what I HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, JOURNALS have." Johnson was much pleased with his answer, and we 1763 gave him... | |
 | 1914 - 578 trang
...learning. Johnson conceded that in some cases this might be true — "for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could sing the...were the first sailors." He then called to the boy, says Boswell, "What would you give, my lad, to 13 know about the Argonauts?" and the boy answered,... | |
 | 1912 - 476 trang
...learning. Johnson conceded that in some cases this might be true — "for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could sing the...were the first sailors". He then called to the boy, says Boswell "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?" and the boy answered, "Sir,... | |
 | 1899 - 740 trang
...Johnston, "that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use; for instance, this boy rows as well without learning as if he could sing...the Argonauts? ' "Sir," said the boy, "I would give all I have." Johnson was much pleased with the answer and gave the boy double fare, and turning to... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 trang
...Greenwich, Johnson remarked that the boy who rowed them could do so just as well without being able to read "the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." But when he amused himself by asking the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?"... | |
 | Apollonios Rhodios - 1997 - 504 trang
...that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could sing the...Argonauts?" "Sir, (said the boy) I would give what I have." The boy's words, then and even today, struck an emotional chord that hit me directly and physically,... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 trang
...statement that was prompted by an interaction they had had with the boy rowing them on the Thames: " 'What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?' 'Sir, (said the boy,) I would give what I have' " (Life, 1, 458). 17 "Life of Dryden," Lives, I, 459. 18 John Dryden, "The Author's Apology for Heroic... | |
 | Yi-fu Tuan - 2002 - 246 trang
...thought people didn't need it. Johnson reluctantly agreed. "For instance," he said, "this boy rows us well without learning as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to Argonauts, who were the first sailors." Then he interrupted himself and called to the boy: "What would... | |
 | Schoolmasters' Association of New York and Vicinity - 1893 - 1162 trang
...that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use: for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could sing the...said the boy, "I would give what I have." Johnson was so much pleased with his answer, that we paid him a double fare. Of course the imparting of knowledge... | |
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Why, Sir, that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors." He then called to the boy,... 
