 It having been mentioned, I know not with what truth, that a certain female political writer, whose doctrines he disliked, had of late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge: — JOHNSON. " She is better employed...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 42by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge:—JOHNSON. " She is better employed at her toilet, than using her...admired Epilogue to ' The Distressed Mother,' which came out in Budgell's name, was in reality written by Addison." " The mode of government by one may... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 pages
...of late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even• put on rouge: — JOHNSON. " She is better employed at her toilet, than...characters." He told us that " Addison wrote Budgell's papers iu the Spectator, at least mended them so much, that he made them almost his own ; and that Draper,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...had of late Become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge — JOHNSON. " She is better employed at her toilet than...is better she should be reddening her own cheeks, fban blackening other people's characters." Johnson arraigned the modern politics of this country,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 458 pages
...had of late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge: — JOHNSON. " She is better employed at her toilet, than...admired Epilogue to ' The Distressed Mother,' which came out in Budgell's name, was in reality written by Addison." " The mode of government by one may... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 pages
...Addisonian elegance; but JOHNSON, we are told, has declared that ' ADD iso N wrote all BODGELL'S papers, or at least mended them so much, that he made them almost his own.' For this dictum of JOHNSON'S, however, we have only the authority of tradition ; and whether he said... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 632 pages
...Addisonian elegance; but JOHNSON, we are told, has declared that ' ADDISON wrote all BUDGELL' s papers, or at least mended them so much, that he made them almost his own.' For this dictum of JOHN SON'S, however, we have only the authority of tradition ; and whether he said... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...what Dr. Johnson reports, from traditional authority, be true, -that " Addison wrote Budgell's papers, at least mended them so much that he made them almost his ownf." Besides these twenty-eight papers attributed to him in consequence of the signature, he is,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - Table-talk - 1825 - 370 pages
...become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge, Johnson said, " She is better employed at her toilet than using her...cheeks, than blackening other people's characters." Mr. Boswell tells us, that a clergyman had come to submit some poetical pieces to Johnson's revision.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pages
...had of late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge ; — JOHNSON. "She is better employed at her toilet, than...Draper, Tonson's partner, assured Mrs. Johnson, that the much-admired epilogue to The Distressed Mother, which came out in Budgell's name, was in reality written... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...had of late become very fond of dress, sat hours together at her toilet, and even put on rouge: — man of the world, who certainly had no bias to the...a letter from me dated at Salamanca. JOHNSON : " came out in Budgell's name, was in reality written by Addison." " The mode of government by one may... | |
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