 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, " Then, Sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading " Don Quixote in the original." This story is sufficiently attested ; but why Oxford, who cleared to be thought i favourer of literature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1801 - 308 pages
...afterwards, became again, and faid that he had mattered it, difmifTed him with this congratulation, " Then, Sir, I envy you the pleasure " of reading Don Quixote in the original." This ftory is fufficiently attefted ; but why Oxford, who defired to be thought a favourer of literature,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed hjm with this congratulation, " Then, Sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading " Don Quixote in the original." This story is sufficiently attested; but why Oxford, who desired to be thought a favourer of literature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 pages
...afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, " Then, Sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don " Quixote in the original." This story is sufficiently attested ; but why Oxford, who desired to be thought a favourer of literature,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, "Then, sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don Quixote in the original." This story is sufficiently attested; but why Oxford, who desired to be thought a favourer of literature,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, " Then, sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don Quixote in the original." This story is sufficiently attested; but why Oxford, who desired to be thought a favourer of literature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, " Then, sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don Quixote in the original." . , This story is sufficiently attested ; but why Oxford, who desired to be thought a favourer of literature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, " Then, sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don Quixote in the original." This story is sufficiently attested ; but why Oxford, who desired to be thought a favourer of literature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 504 pages
...afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, " Then, Sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading Don " Quixote in the original." This story is sufficiently attested ; but why Oxford, who desired to be thought a favourer of literature,... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 322 pages
...same. Lord Oxford was huddled in his thoughts, and obscure in his manner of delivering them. It was he who advised Mr. Rowe to learn Spanish, and after all...Don Quixote in the original."—" Was not that cruel ?" I do not believe it was meant so; it was only his odd way.—The same. YOUNG. A little after Dr.... | |
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Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, "Then, sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading 'Don Quixote 
