 | samuel johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
...advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet_ he never .Deceived my notions with contempt. He was a \yhig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion. $4 not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me., ; ,.. He had, mingled, with the .gay wojld,,... | |
 | Books - 1780 - 592 pages
...and even commending and inftancing his candour on political points, Mr. Johnfon ftrangely ' adds, " He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party." Could the mod bigotted Whig fpealc with more virulence and malevolence of Samuel Johnfon, as a Tory... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1780 - 586 pages
...character; and even commending and inilancing his candour on political points, Mr. Johnfon ftrangely adds, " He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party." Could the moft bigotted Whig foeak with more virulence and male-valence of Samuel Johnfon, as a Tory... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...brought in, we learn, from an extractjn it fpom Dr. Johnfon's Life of Smith, that Gilbert > Walmfley was a Whig with all the virulence and malevolence of his party, and I that t ยป4 1 that the Doctor was of different notions and opinions *. But we are well informed,... | |
 | James Thomson Callender - 1782 - 78 pages
...fay s, ' In this man's houfe I paffed many chearful and a' greeable hours.' But ' he (Mr Walmfley) was a whig, with * all the virulence and malevolence of his party.*' I finifh this eflay by reciting the circumftance which gave k birth. In 1778, Mr William Shaw published... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 456 pages
...that at leaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with afi the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I... | |
 | John Hawkins - 1787 - 652 pages
...of an advanced age, and I was only not ' a boy; yet, he never received my notions with con' tempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and * malevolence...opinion * did not keep us apart : I honoured him, and he en.' dured me. ' He had mingled with the gay world, without ' exemption from its vices or its follies,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...at feaft my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of aft advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt....Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his patty; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he end i: red me. He had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 642 pages
...boy; yet, he never received my notions with con1 tempt. He was a whigy with all the virulence and 1 malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion ' did not keep us apart : I honoured him, and he en' dured me. ' He had mingled with the gay world, without * exemption from its vices or its follies,... | |
 | John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 632 pages
...boy ; yet, he never received my notions with con* tempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and f malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion...* did not keep us apart : I honoured him., and he en* dured me. ' He had mingled with the gay world, without ' exemption from its vices or its follies,... | |
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Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of... 
