 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1873 - 428 pages
...Earl Temple, and Lord George. Dr. Johnson who had broken a lance with Junius, told Boswell, ' I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no man but Burke who is capable of writing these tetters ; but Burke spontaneously 1 It seemed unlikely that Lord George could have had the classical... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...charge. "Sir," said Johnson, "I should "have believed Burke to -I^L_ "bejunius, becauselknow "-Ms"no man but Burke who is "capable of writing these let"ters; but Burke spontaneously " denied it to me." * Better, however, than even such spontaneous denial, and satisfactory where Townshend's disclaimer... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1873 - 466 pages
...had broken a lance with Junius, told Boswell, 'I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because 1 know no man but Burke, who is capable of writing these letters ; but Burke spontaneously 1 It seemed unlikely that Lord George could have had the classical knowledge (not very deep) displayed... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...capable of writing these letters ; but Burke spontaneously denied it to me. The case would have bcen different, had I asked him if he was the author ; a man so questioned, as to an anonymous publication, may think he has a right to deny it.' He observed that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...wonderful concealment of the authour of the celebrated letters signed Juntus ; he said, " I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no...have been different had I asked him if he was the authour ; a man so questioned, as to an anonymous publication, may think he has a right to deny it."... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1878 - 832 pages
...plausible reason that he was the only living writer of the necessary capacity. "I should," Johnson said, "have believed Burke to be Junius, because I...when so questioned as to an anonymous publication." In some of the letters of Junius there is a profusion of figurative language and of classical allusion... | |
 | Canada - 1921 - 804 pages
...tribute to Junius and Burke in the same breath by saying, that he attributed the letters to Edmund Burke "because I know no man but Burke who is capable of writing these letters." {Boswell's Johnson, Vol. 3, page 64). WHO WAS JUNIUS? One hundred and fifty years have elapsed since... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...the wonderful concealment of the author of the celebrated letters signed Junius, he said, " I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no...different, had I asked him if he was the author; a man so questioned, as to an anonymous publication, may think he has a right to deny it." He observed that... | |
 | James Macaulay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 172 pages
...the wonderful concealment of the author of the celebrated letters signed Junius, he said, " I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no...different had I asked him if he was the author ; a man so questioned, as to an anonymous publication, may think he has a right to deny it." OCEAN. A GENTLEMAN... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 436 pages
...the wonderful concealment of the authour of the celebrated letters signed Junius, he said, " I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no...have been different, had I asked him if he was the authour ; a man so questioned as to an anonymous publication, may think he has a right to deny it."... | |
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I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no man but Burke who is capable of writing these letters ; but Burke spontaneously denied it to me. 
