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If I hadn't taken your part against Blazing Bosville, you wouldn't be now taking tea with me." "It is true that you struck me in the face first; but we'll let that pass. So that man's name is Bosville; what's your own?" "Isopel Berners." "How did you get that name?" "I say, young man, you seem fond of asking questions! will you have another cup of tea?" "I was just going to ask for another."
If I hadn't taken your part against Blazing Bosville, you wouldn't be now taking tea with me. 'It is true that you struck me in the face first; but we'll let that pass. So that man's name is Bosville; what's your own? 'Isopel Berners. 'How did you get that name? 'I say, young man, you seem fond of asking questions: will you have another cup of tea? 'I was just going to ask for another.
However, as Johnson observed, we saw the Pantheon in time of mourning, when there was a dull uniformity; whereas we had seen Ranelagh when the view was enlivened with a gay profusion of colours. Mrs. Bosville, of Gunthwait, in Yorkshire, joined us, and entered into conversation with us. Johnson said to me afterwards, 'Sir, this is a mighty intelligent lady.
At last, passing through the valley of Todmorden, I formed the acquaintance of Blazing Bosville and his wife, with whom I occasionally took journeys for company's sake, for it is melancholy to travel about alone, even when one can take one's own part.
If I hadn’t taken your part against Blazing Bosville, you wouldn’t be now taking tea with me.’ ‘It is true that you struck me in the face first; but we’ll let that pass. So that man’s name is Bosville; what’s your own?’ ‘Isopel Berners.’ ‘How did you get that name?’ ‘I say, young man, you seem fond of asking questions: will you have another cup of tea?’ ‘I was just going to ask for another.’
I wrote to Squire Godfrey Bosville , my Yorkshire chief, that I should, perhaps, pay him a visit, as I was to hold a conference with Dr. Johnson at York. I give you my word and honour that I said not a word of his inviting you; but he wrote to me as follows:
Herne, and the evil sprite Leonora, Thurtell, the fighting men, the Irish outlaw Jerry Grant, who was suspected of raising a storm by "something Irish and supernatural" to win a fight, Murtagh, that wicked innocent, the old apple-woman, Blazing Bosville, Isopel Berners, the jockey who drove one hundred and ten miles in eleven hours to see "the only friend he ever had in the world," John Thurtell, and say, "God Almighty bless you, Jack!" before the drop fell, the old gentleman who had learned "Sergeant Broughton's guard" and knocked out the bullying coachman, the Welsh preacher and his wife, the Arcadian old bee-keeper, the rat-catcher all these and their companions are woven into one piece by the genius of their creator, Borrow.
Bosville , and gave him an account of my having passed a day at Lincoln, unexpectedly, and therefore without having any letters of introduction, but that I had been honoured with civilities from the Reverend Mr. Simpson, an acquaintance of his, and Captain Broadley, of the Lincolnshire Militia; but more particularly from the Reverend Dr.
Sir Alexander Macdonald, husband of Boswell's Yorkshire cousin Miss Bosville, and the host at the masquerade in February, was on his way to Edinburgh, and met them at the house of a tenant, 'as we believe, wrote Johnson to Mrs Thrale, 'that he might with less reproach entertain us meanly. Boswell was very angry, and reproached him with his improper parsimony.
It is the strangest thing in the world the judgment of men as to what is important and serious! Bunyan says in his rhymed introduction: "I only thought to make I knew not what: nor did I undertake Thereby to please my neighbour; no, not I: I did it my own self to gratify." Another man I love to have at hand is he who writes of Blazing Bosville, the Flaming Tinman, and of The Hairy Ones.
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