 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...exercise as he used to have, for he digs in the garden. Indeed, before his confinement, he used for exercise to walk to the alehouse ; but he was carried...love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour ; but even supposing knowledge to be easily... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....easily attainable, more people would be content to be 1 It has been wondered why Johnson, who obtained a place in the edition of British Poets for Yalden,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....easily attainable, more people would be content to be 1 It has been wondered why Johnson, who obtained a place in the edition of British Poets for Yalden,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." While in Bedlam, Smart wrote his famous $onf f0t .David/ published in 1763. Worn out with drunkenness... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." While in Bedlam, Smart wrote his famous Song to David, published in 1763. Worn out with drunkenness... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it." While in Bedlam, Smart wrote his famous Song to David, published in 1763. Worn out with drunkenness... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." While in Bedlam, Smart wrote his famous Song to David, published in 1763. Worn out with drunkenness... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 388 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." When Boswell paid Johnson his memorable first visit in 1763, Smart had recently been released from... | |
 | Edmund William Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." While in Bedlam, Smart wrote his famous Song to David, published in 1 763. Worn out with drunkenness... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1897 - 446 pages
...society. He insisted upon people praying with him, and I'd as lief pray withKitSinart as with anyoneelse. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.' The impulse which had produced the ' Song to David ' remained with Smart to the end, but the inspiration... | |
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I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it. 
