 | A. Edward Newton - 1923 - 168 pages
...Boswell.] Now I have offended him again, yet I love him. A game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance. A man may be beat at times by one who has not a tenth part of his wit. Davy is the first man in London for sprightly conversation. Mr. BOSWELL. And... | |
 | Henry Waters Taft - Conversation - 1927 - 104 pages
...the temper for it * * * he is mortified when he fails. * * * Now Goldsmith's putting himself against another is like a man laying a hundred to one, who cannot spare the hundred." But on one occasion when Johnson said he could write a fable introducing animals... | |
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Goldsmith should not be for ever attempting to shine in conversation : he has not temper for it, he is so much mortified when he fails. Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance ; a man may be beat at times by one who has not... 
