 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...357) : — • I remember when Sir Joshua Reynolds at my house reminded Dr. Johnson that he had drank eleven cups, he replied : — " Sir, I did not count...— " Sir, I should have released the lady from any further trouble, if it had not been for your remark ; but you have reminded me that I want one of the... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...357) : — ' I remember when Sir Joshua Reynolds at my house reminded Dr. Johnson that he had drank eleven cups, he replied : — " Sir, I did not count...— " Sir, I should have released the lady from any further trouble, if it had not been for your remark ; but you have reminded me that I want one of the... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...favourite beverage, and I remember when Sir Joshua Reynolds, at my house, reminded him that he had drank eleven cups, he replied — " Sir, I did not count...— « Sir, I should have released the lady from any further trouble, if it had not been for your remark ; but you have reminded me that I / want one of... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...favourite beverage, and I remember when Sir Joshua Reynolds, at my house, reminded him that he had drank eleven cups, he replied — " Sir, I did not count...glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups often ?" And then laughing in perfect good humour, he added — « Sir, I should have released the... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 500 pages
...favourite beverage, and 1 remember when sir Joshua Reynolds at my house reminded him that he had drank eleven cups, he replied, "Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you Dumber up my cups of tea ?" And then laughing in perfect good humour, he udiied — " Sir, I slriuld... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Authors, English - 1807 - 456 pages
...he had drank eleven cups, he replied — " Sir, I did not count your glasses of; " wine, why hould you number up my cups "of tea?" And then laughing..." Sir, I should have " released the lady from any further trouble, " if it had not been for your remark ; but you " have reminded me that I want one... | |
 | William Mudford - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 666 pages
...favourite beverage, and I remember when Sir Joshua Reynolds, at my house, reminded him that he had drank eleven cups, he replied — ' Sir, I did not count...— ' Sir, I should have released the lady from any further trouble, if it had not been for your remark ; but you have reminded me that I want one of the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...favourite beverage, and I remember when Sir Joshua Reynolds at my house reminded him that he had drank eleven cups, he replied, ' Sir., I did, not count...glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups Mem. of tea?' And then laughing, in perfect good-humour he added, ' Sir, P 357 ^ should have released... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1831 - 570 pages
...aside and trickled into his shoes, for the good man had neither straight sight nor steady nerves. Camb. not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups Mem. of tea ?' And then laughing, in perfect good-humour he added, ' Sir, p° jgL I should have released... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...VII. ANECDOTES OF DR. JOHNSON, BY MR. CUMBERLAND, (i) 355. Johnson at the Tea-table. AT the tea-table he had considerable demands upon his favourite beverage,...up my cups of tea?" And then laughing, in perfect good-humour he added, " Sir, I should have released the lady from any further trouble, if it had not... | |
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Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea ? " And then laughing in perfect good humour he added — " Sir, I should have released the lady from any further trouble, if it had not been for your remark ; but you... 
