 | Arthur St. John Adcock - 1912 - 412 páginas
...I had heard much, I said to Davies, ' Don't tell where I come from.' ' From Scotland,' cried Davies roguishly. ' Mr. Johnson,' said I, 'I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.' He retorted, ' That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.' This stroke... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 páginas
...This was apparently a disastrous beginning, and something must be done to retrieve the position. ' " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." ' It was rash indeed to originate the conversation and not less typical of Boswell for that. But a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 páginas
...had heard much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell where I come from." — "From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. "Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come...flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 páginas
...heard much, I [200 said to Davies, "Don't tell where I come from." — "From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. "Mr. Johnson (said I), I do indeed come...flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - 1917 - 662 páginas
...heard so much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell him where I come from." "From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. "Mr. Johnson (said I), I do indeed come...flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 páginas
...heard much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell where I come from." — "From 30 Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. "Mr. Johnson," said I, "I do indeed come...it." I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this a slight pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as a humiliating abasement at the expense... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 páginas
...heard much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell where I come from." — "From 20 Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. "Mr. Johnson," said I, "I do indeed come...from Scotland, but I cannot help it." I am willing to natter myself that I meant this a slight pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as a humiliating... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1918 - 578 páginas
...much. ' In Patriotic Poetry: Greek and Englith, pp. 14-22, 97-99. where we are met to-night), to say "Mr. Johnson (said I), I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it "; to which Johnson's reply is equally famous "That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 páginas
...had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from."—" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come...flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 páginas
...had heard much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell him where I come from." "From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. "Mr. Johnson (said I) I do indeed come...flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however... | |
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Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated, and, recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell where I come from." "From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly.... 
