 | James Boswell - 1835 - 460 pages
...such astonishing dramatic talents, as too well verified the observation of his friend, " His death eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." 701. Further Anecdotes of Johnsons Parents. Of Michael Johnson little is generally known, beyond the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...such astonishing dramatic talents, as too well verified the observation of his friend, " His death eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." 701 . Further Anecdotes of Johnson's Parents. Of Michael Johnson little is generally known, beyond... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...such astonishing dramatic talents, as too well verified the observation of his friend, " His death eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." 701. Johnson's Parents. Of Michael Johnson little is generally known, beyond the fact that he was a... | |
 | John William Cole - 1839 - 194 pages
...him and his art, in his Life of Smith, by saying that "he had gladdened life, and that his death had eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." COLERIDGE, a man whose piety and profound learning almost entitle him to a place among the divines... | |
 | John William Cole - 1839 - 192 pages
...him and his art, in his Life of Smith, by saying that "he had gladdened life, and that his death had eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." COLERIDGE, a man whose piety and profound learning almost entitle him to a place among the divines... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has ecli psed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. In the Library at Oxford is the following ludicrous Analysis of Pocockius : EX AUTOGRAPHO. [Sent by... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pages
...such astonishing dramatic talents, as too well verified the observation of his friend, " His death eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." 701. Johnson's Parents. Of Michael Johnson little is generally known, beyond the fact that he was a... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - 590 pages
...common friend ; but what are the hopes of man 1 I am disappointed by this stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasures."; — ED. * Hannah More, in a letter to her sister, gives the following striking account... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 pages
...common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by this stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasures." — ED. in great ceremony in Westminster Abbey ;* but, not having been so inattentive to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...our common friend. But what are the hopes of man? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has laim, — Here am I with In these families he passed much time in his early years. In most of them, he was in the company of... | |
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... who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I... 
