 whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend; but what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. In the library...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Pàgina 292per Samuel Johnson - 1825Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 328 pàgines
...life; with Dr. James, whofe flcill in phyfick will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, rick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character...common friend : but what are the hopes of man! I am difappointed by that {broke of death, which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverifhed the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 334 pàgines
...be long remembered; and with David Garrick, rick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this charadter of our common friend : but what are the hopes of man! I am difappointed by .that ftroke of •death, which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverifhed... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1781 - 570 pàgines
...gladdened, life; with Dr. Jamts, whofe ikill in phyfic will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character...our common friend: but, what are the hopes of man Î I am difappointed by that ftroke of death which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoveriihed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 484 pàgines
...gladdened life; with Dr. James, whofe fkill in phyfick will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character...common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death, which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverifhed the... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 360 pàgines
...gladdened life; with Dr. James, whofe ikill in phyfick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character...common friend: but what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death, which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pàgines
...with Dr ' James, whofe /kill in Phyfick will be long remembered •, and with David Garrick, whom 1 hoped to have gratified with this character of our...common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death, which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverifhed the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pàgines
...gladdened life; with Dr. James1, whose skill in physick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character...eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the publick stock of harmless pleasure'.' In these families he passed much time in his early years. In... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pàgines
...gladdened life; with Dr. James', whose skill in physick will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character...eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the publick stock of harmless pleasure'.' In these families he passed much time in his early years. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...James, whose skill in pbysick will be 1< remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have pratil •with this character of our common friend : but what are the hopes of mi 1 am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaietv nations, and impoverished... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1802 - 332 pàgines
...astonishing dramatic talents, as too well verified the observation of his I C 109 ] friend: " His death eclipsed the gaiety of nations, " and impoverished the public stock of harmless " pleasure." There is an air of bathos in this remark, which gives it rather a ridiculous effect, but it certainly... | |
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