 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 am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Seite 2921819Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 Seiten
...long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to bave gratified with this character of oar common friend. But what are the hopes of man? I am...the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.' In these families he passed much time in his early years. In most of them... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 Seiten
...physick 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...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 most... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 Seiten
...in physio 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...that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of na. tions, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.' — Life O/~EDMUSD SMITH. SUPPLEMENTAL... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 Seiten
...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 II am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished... | |
 | 1885 - 860 Seiten
...Garrick, and in death embalmed his memory in a sentence which can only die with the English language : " I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has...the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." Will it be believed that puny critics have been found to quarrel with... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 Seiten
...skill in physic will be long remembered ; with DAVIJ> GARRICK, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by the stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1893 - 684 Seiten
...dear Davy.' Upon the monument to Garrick at Lichfield is inscribed Johnson's characteristic remark : ' I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has...the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.' Here, beneath the statue in Poets' Corner, is an inscription by Pratt... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 Seiten
...style is heard in Johnson's lamentation upon the death of Garrick: But what are the hopes of man! l am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has...the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. The rhythm of this is self-consciously elaborated (Johnson has indeed been... | |
 | John Richardson - 2000 - 416 Seiten
...politicians such as Burke and Fox. Dr Johnson, Garrick's old tutor and friend, declared at the service, 'I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has...the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.' A NEW SESSIONS HOUSE AT CLERKENWELL Tlie handsome building now occupied... | |
 | Greg Harkin - 2001 - 340 Seiten
...in physick 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...eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the publick stock of harmless pleasure." See "Edmund Smith," in Lives of the English Poets, ed. GB Hill... | |
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