 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
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 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 Boswell - 1900 - 556 Seiten
...Percy. uttered with an abrupt excellence, superiour to all studied composition : — " 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 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... | |
 | Norman Moore, Stephen Paget, Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London - 1905 - 378 Seiten
...critics and authors : and that might be said of him, which was written of Johnson — He /ias 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... | |
 | Norman Moore, Stephen Paget, Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London - 1905 - 384 Seiten
...of critics and authors : and that might be said of him, which was written of Johnson—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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 Seiten
...touchingly affectionate, and on December i3th he died. " He has made a chasm," said Gerard Hamilton, " which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing...is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson." Johnson was buried, as he had hoped to be, in Westminster Abbey, with the recognition due... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 542 Seiten
...Percy, uttered with an abrupt excellence, superiour to all studied compos tion : — " 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 Seiten
...friend, 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... | |
 | George Lacey May - 1920 - 242 Seiten
...biographer, worshipped him as a dog his master. When he died, one of his friends said, " 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... | |
 | 1921 - 930 Seiten
...Johnson's contemporaries was, in fact, all but unanimous, and almost without reservation. His death '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... | |
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