 | James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 382 pages
...the part of Johnson, for having, in a degree, forced himself into an intimacy ; when Johnson said, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone: a man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." 1758. jETAT. 34. FROM a letter of... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho, in. Ovid." * He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair." Amid the cokl obscurity of Johnson's early life,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...a subseqnent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson hiiuself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon und himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." The celebrated... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." The celebrated Mr. Wilkes, whose notions... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho, in Ovid." * He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he wilt soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair." Amid the cold... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." The celebrated Mr. Wilkes, whose notions... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair" The celebrated Mr. Wilkes, whose notions... | |
 | Benjamin Oakley - 1823 - 442 pages
...kindness yet" — a kindness to departed worth. Doctor Johnson somewhere says, " If a man does not make acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair" Then, as old acquaintance wears off, I shall adopt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - Table-talk - 1825 - 370 pages
...thing, that he is nothing of any thing." At a late period of his life he said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." During a visit at Oxford, the following... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...affectionate temper and bright fancy will coalesce a great deal sooner than those who are cold and dull. man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." The celebrated Mr. Wilkes, whose notions... | |
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If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. 
