 | James Boswell - 1885 - 454 Seiten
...taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a club, in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately...brother." In the evening I introduced to Mr. Johnson J two good friends of mine, Mr. William Nairne, advocate, and Mr. Hamilton, of Sundrum, my neighbour... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 Seiten
...taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a Club, in the following singular manner : ' This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately...his brother'.' In the evening I introduced to Mr. Johnson2 two good friends four years from this conversation, 2 1st February, 1777, My Lord Archbishop... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 648 Seiten
...courses. Cooke, although of a convivial temper, had a cynical humour ; he introduced Foote to a club as ' the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother.' A friend, Sir Joseph Mawbey, to whom Cooke left his manuscripts, contributed a long anecdotal biography,... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1888 - 500 Seiten
...after, Cooke introduced his finely-dressed friend Foote, at a club in Covent Garden, as " Mr. Foote, the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother ! " Foote succeeded as ill at the Temple as at Oxford ; and his necessities, we are told, drove him... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 Seiten
...always taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a club in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately...his brother." ' In the evening I introduced to Mr. Johnson2 two good friends of mine, Mr. William Nairne, advocate, and Mr. Hamilton of Sundrum, my neighbour... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 Seiten
...always taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a club in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother." 1 In the evening I introduced to Mr. Johnson2 two good friends of mine, Mr. William Nairne, advocate,... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1890 - 444 Seiten
...after, Caoke introduced his finely-dressed friend Foote, at * club in Covent Garden, as " Mr. Foote, tne nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother !" Foote succeeded as ill at the Temple as at Oxford ; and his necessities, we are told, drove him... | |
 | JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...always taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a club in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately...brother." ' In the evening I introduced to Mr. Johnson 2 two good friends of mine, Mr. William Nairne, advocate, and Mr. Hamilton of Sundrum, my neighbour... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1892 - 384 Seiten
...murder to account in a different, fashion. Foote, it is said, was introduced at a club in the words, ' This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother ; ' and it is added that Foote's first pamphlet was an account of this disagreeable domestic incident.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 Seiten
...always taking subscriptions; and that he presented Foote to a Club, in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately...another of his heterodox opinions — a contempt of tragick acting. He said, "the action of all players in tragedy is bad. It should be a man's study to... | |
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He told us of Cooke, who translated Hesiod, and lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus, for which he was always taking subscriptions; and that he presented Foote to a Club, in the following singular manner: 'This is the nephew of the gentleman... 
