 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...communicating to me ; and he described this early friend " Harry Hervey," thus : " He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog HERVEY, I shall love him." He told me he had now written only three acts of his IRE^TE, and that he retired for some time to lodgings... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...communicating to me ; and he described this early friend, ' Harry Hervey,' thus : ' He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog HERVEY, I shall love him.' He told me he had now written only three acts of his Irene, and that he retired for some time to lodgings... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...communicating to me ; and he described this early friend, ' Harry Hervey,' thus : ' He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog HERVEY, I shall love him.' He told me he had now written only three acts of his Irene, and that he retired for some time to lodgings... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...before his death, he thus described this early friend, • Harry Hervey, he was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey I shall love him.' It is founded upon a passage in Smollet's History of the Turks, a book which he afterwards highly praised... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...long before his death, he thus described his early friend : « Henry Hervey was a vicious man, but very " kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall " love him." At this time Johnson once more addressed him»elf to Mr Cave, the proprietor and editor of the Gentleman's... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...communicating to me ; and he described this early friend " Harry Hervey," thus : " He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog HERVEY, I shall love him." He told me he had now written only three acts of his IRENE, and that he retired for some time to lodgings... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...long before his death, he thus described this early friend, " Harry Hervey, he was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey I shall love him." In three months after he came to London, bis tragedy being as he thought completely finished, and fit... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...subsequent period of his life he thus described this early friend. ," Harry Hervey was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey I shall love him." He had an unlimited partiality for all who bore the name, or boasted the alliance of an Aston or an... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...Communicating to me; and he described 'this early friend "Harry Hervey," thus: " He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog HERVEY, I shall love him." He told me he had now written only three acts of his IRENE, and that he retired for some time to lodgings... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...i'haon must be. loved,' VOL. t. L> this early friend, Harry Hervey, thus : " He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him." Boswell having mentioned that old Sheridan complained of the ingratitude of Mr. Wedderburue and General... | |
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Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man ; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him. 
