...... I have beat many a fellow, but the rest had the wit to hold their tongues." To Boswell he said, " Sir, he was impertinent to me and I beat him. But it was not in his shop; it was in my own chamber." Irene and London. — Before he had migrated to London he had written the greater part of Irene, a...

...showed that it was a detail rather than his spirit which had been misrepresented. " Sir," said he, " he was impertinent to me and I beat him ; but it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber." Johnson's other employer was Cave, a better man than Osborne ; indeed, a man of many virtues, able...

...his shop with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. ' Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber.' " May it not be the case that Mr. Irving's treasure is this great historic folio ? In the good old...

...contributed has not been ascertained. His Account of the Harleian library presents a very conspicuous view of the collection, and of the plan adopted for...looking up to him for the reward of his work, and re* See Note on the Dunciad, Book 11, T. 167. t Life of Pope. ceiving it accompanied with reproach...

...account of Johnson knocking down Osborne in his shop with a folio. He also gives Johnson's response: "'Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But...it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber'" (Life of Johnson, 112; see also "Boswell's Life of Johnson" [1832], Essays 3:102). Johnson knew both...

...Johnson took no trouble to contradict the rumour, but, in mentioning the fact to Boswell,. said, " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him;, but...it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber." Oui1 illustration recalls a memorable scene which Johnson has himself described : — " I received...

...Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to ^ Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 3d. edit. p. 167. me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in. my own chamber." A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found. 1 have no...