 He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best: there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.  Poems - Seite 21von William Robert Spencer (hon.) - 1835Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Rough diamond - 1884 - 390 Seiten
...intellect, could not fail to be deeply mourned and missed. " Johnson is dead," exclaims one left behind. " Let us go to the next best, — there is nobody, no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson." Shakespeare has, perhaps, furnished as good a description of the man as may be had in a few... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 Seiten
...2 which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superior to all studied compositions :—" He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best: there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 Seiten
...heard his breathing cease ; they looked, and found that SAMUEL JOHNSON was no more. "JOHNSON is dead, let us go to the next best — there is nobody. No man can be said to put us in mind of JOHNSON." In every phase of life he stands unique. We see him a boy, borne in triumph... | |
 | Charles George Gordon - 1885 - 530 Seiten
...Johnson died, one of his friends said : — "Johnson is dead. Let us go PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. XI to the next best ; there is nobody ; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson." Who can be said to put us in mind of Gordon ? Who that is alive now ? Who that has ever lived... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 510 Seiten
...enemy. What Burke (or some other friend) said at Johnson's death may be said of Felton's : "It has made a chasm which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Johnson is dead : let us go to the next best. There is nobody. No man can be said to put you in mind... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 520 Seiten
...enemy. What Burke (or some other friend) said at Johnson's death may be said of Felton's : "It has made a chasm which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Johnson is dead: let us go to the next best. There is nobody. No man can be said to put you in mind... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 Seiten
...Hon. William Gerard Hamilton. MALONE. Johnson Aetat. 75.] Portraits of Johnson. 421 Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best: — there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson V As Johnson had abundant' homage paid to him during his life*, so no writer in this nation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 Seiten
...which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superior to all studied compositions : — ' He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. ' Dr. Burney wrote to the Rev. T. Twining on Christmas Day, 1784 : — ' The Dean and Chapter of Westminster... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1887 - 552 Seiten
...Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best. No man can be said to put you in mind of him. He has made a chasm which not only nothing can fill up but which nothing has a tendency to fill up." His predecessor — " Rare " Ben Jonson was not so rare as he. No other man ate and drank; talked and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 Seiten
...abrupt felicity, superior to all studied compositions :—' He has made a chasm, which not onlynothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. ' Dr. Burney wrote to the Rev. T. Twining on Christmas Day, 1784 :— ' The Dean and Chapter of Westminster... | |
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