 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite through'. Yet I have...which prevented his ever fixing in any profession.' 1725: jETAT. 16. — AFTER having resided for some time at the house of his uncle, Cornelius Ford',... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of FELIXMARTE OF HIRCANIA, in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have...which prevented his ever fixing in any profession." 1725 : MTA.T. 16. — AFTER having resided for some time at the house of his uncle, Cornelius Ford,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Fclixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite through'. Yet I have...which prevented his ever fixing in any profession.' 1725: jETAT. 16. — AFTER having resided for some time at the house of his uncle, Cornelius Ford4,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...time at the house of his cousin Cornelius Ford, who assisted him in the classics, he was by his advice at the age of fifteen removed to the school of Stourbridge in Worcestershire, of which Mr. Wentworth was then master, whom he has described as ' a very able man, but an idle man ; and to him... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...reading the old Spanish romance of FELIXMARTE OF HIRCANIA, in folio, which he read quite through. Yet 1 have heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions...having resided for some time at the house of his uncle, 1 Cornelius Ford, Johnson was, at the age, of fifteen, removed to the school of Stourbridge, in Worcestershire,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...at the house of his cousin Cornelius Ford, who assisted him in the classics, he was by his advice, at the age of fifteen, removed to the school of Stourbridge in Worcestershire, of which Mr Wentworth was then master, whom he has described as " a very able man, but an idle man; and to him... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...parsonage-house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of FtuxMARTE OF HIRCAMA, in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have...fictions that unsettled turn of mind which prevented him ever fixing in any profession." very able man, but an idle man, and to me very severe ; but I cannot... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...any profesion." After having resided for unrne at the honse of his uncle, Cornelins Ford, Johns'in was at the age of fifteen, removed to the school of Stourbridge, in Worcestershire, of which Mr. Wentworth was then master. This step was taken by the advice of his consin, the Rev. Mr. Ford, a man... | |
 | Sampson Erdeswicke - 1820 - 516 pages
...London by his mother, and was touched, as the custom then was, by queen Anne. At the age of fifteen, after having resided for some time at the house of his uncle, Cornelius Ford, the son of Dr. Joseph Ford, a physician, and brother to Johnson's mother, he was removed to the school... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of FELIXMARTE OF HIRCANIA, in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have...school of Stourbridge, in Worcestershire, of which Mr. Wentworth was then master. This step was taken by the advice of his cousin, the Rev. Mr. Ford, a man... | |
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... when a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry, and he retained his fondness for them through life; so that [adds his Lordship] spending part of a summer at my parsonage-house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the... 
