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" You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention. "
The Table Talk of John Selden - Page 22
by John Selden - 1818 - 180 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not...Pope, he said, " Thy love of folly, and thy scorn of fools.1 Every thing thou dost shows the one, and every thing thou say'st, the other." At another time...
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The Press and the Stage: An Oration

William Winter - Journalism - 1889 - 72 pages
...Johnson's excellent remark to the satirical Beauclerck: "You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not...of what you said but from seeing your intention." 5° is pleasant in tone at the beginning I read it through ; but if I perceive that the intention is...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Comprising a Series of His Epistolary ...

James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...nim, " You never open your mouth but with the intention to give pain ; and you have often given тас pain, not from the power of what you said, but from...said, " Thy love of folly, and thy scorn of fools. Everything thou dost shows the one, and everything thou say^t, the other." At another time he said...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: To which is Added The Journal of a ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, "You never open your mouth but with the intention to give pain; and you have often given me pain, not from...said, " ' Thy love of folly, and thy scorn of fools.' Everything thou dost shows the one, and everything thou say'st the other." At another time he said...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1900 - 562 pages
...to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not...Pope, he said, " Thy love of folly, and thy scorn ot fools — l Every thing thou dost shews the one, and every thing thou say'st the other." At another...
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events

Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1907 - 566 pages
...to satire, that at one time, Johnson said to him, " You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain, and you have often given me pain, not from..."Thy love of folly, and thy scorn of fools — Every thins thou dost shows the one, and every thing thou say 'st the other." At another time he said to...
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The Beaux and the Dandies: Nash, Brummell, and D'Orsay with Their Courts

Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold - Dandies - 1910 - 404 pages
...satire Johnson said : " You never open your mouth but with the intention of giving pain ; and you have given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention." At another time he adapted one of Pope's lines to Beauclerk, " Thy love of folly and thy scorn of fools." Dr. Johnson...
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Oliver Goldsmith, a Biography

Washington Irving - 1911 - 346 pages
...tolerated by Johnson. "Sir," said he on one occasion, "you never open your mouth but with intention to give pain; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what yon have said, but from seeing your intention." When it was at first proposed to enroll Goldsmith among...
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The Century: A Popular Quarterly, Volume 87

1914 - 1116 pages
..."You never open your mouth but with the intention of giving pain," he said with sorrowful sternness; "and you have often given me pain, not from the power...of what you said, but from seeing your intention." Jerome Cardan, in one of the most candid autobiographies ever penned, admitted that he liked to inflict...
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boswell's life of johnson

charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 pages
...propensity to satire, that at one time Johnson said to him, 'You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain; and you have often given me pain, not from...of Pope, he said, Thy love of folly, and thy scorn cf fools— Every thing thou dost shews the one, and every thing thou say'st the other.' At another...
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