 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 Seiten
...wits of London; but with so little success, that Foote said, " What can he mean by coming among us ? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others." Trying him by the test of his colloquial pou'ers, Johnson had found him very defective. He once said... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 440 Seiten
...wits of London ; but with so little success, that Foote said, " What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others." Trying him by the test of his colloquial powers, Johnson had found him very defective. He once said... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 Seiten
...wits of London ; but with so little success, that Foote said, " What can he mean by coming among us ? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others." Trying him by the test of his colloquial powers, Johnson had found him very defective. He once said... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 570 Seiten
...wits of London ; but with so little success, that Foote said, " What can he mean by coming among us ? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others." Trying him by the test of his colloquial powers, Johnson had found him very defective. He once said... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 Seiten
...wits of London ; but with so little success, that Foote said, " What can he mean by coming among us ? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others." Trying him by the test of his colloquial powers, Johnson had found him very defective. He once said... | |
 | 1836 - 596 Seiten
...wits of London, but with so little success that Foote said, ' What can he mean by coming among us ? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others/ Trying him by the test of his colloquial powers, Johnson had found him very defective. He once said... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 Seiten
...wits of London ; but with so little success, that Foote said, " What can he mean by coming among us ? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others." Trying him by the test of his colloquial powers, Johnson had found him very defective. He once said... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 Seiten
...wits of London • but with so little success, that Foote said, ( What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others/ Trying him by the test of his colloquial powers, Johnson had found him very defective. He once said... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 414 Seiten
...wits of London ; "but with so little success that Foote said : ' What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, "but the cause of dulness in others.' Trying him by the test' of his colloquial powers, Johnson had found him very defective. He once said... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 410 Seiten
...wits of London ; but with so little success that Foote said, ' What can he mean by coming among us ? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.' Trying him by the test of his colloquial powers, Johnson had found him very defective. He once said... | |
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He expressed himself to the same purpose concerning another law-lord 2, who, it seems, once took a fancy to associate with the wits of London ; but with so little success, that Foote said, " What can he mean by coming among us ? He is not only dull himself,... 
