 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 Seiten
...common friend — but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure !" (Johnson's Life of Edmund Smith.) How does this last line pay a life of exertion ! Walmsley's epitaph,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 Seiten
...common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. In the library at Oxford is the following ludicrous Analysis of Pocockius : EX ADTOGRÂPHO. (Sent by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 Seiten
...common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has entertaining. "His memory, though not so eminent as that of Seneca or ScaHger, was cap In the library at Oxford is the following ludicrous Analysis of Pocockius : EX ADTOCRAPHO. (Sent by... | |
 | 1849 - 638 Seiten
...Garrick'a death was never thought exaggerated. " I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." Nor could any satirist of those days have levelled against /<is noble friends and admirers the bitter... | |
 | 1849 - 636 Seiten
...Garrick's death was never thought exaggerated. " I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." Nor could any satirist of (hose days have levelled against his noble friends and admirers the bitter... | |
 | 1927 - 594 Seiten
...friend David Garrick, the great Shakespearean actor, died, Dr. Johnson wrote that this untimely death "eclipsed the gayety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." Boswell took the Doctor to task for indulging in an anti-climax. "Is not," asked Boswell, " 'harmless... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 Seiten
...Life of Milton. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. ibid. His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. Life of Edmund Smith (alluding to the death of Garrick). That man is little to be envied whose patriotism... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 Seiten
...that eat frogs ? When told of the poor success of the French Dictionary. — PIOZZI: 54. His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. Of Garrick, placed by his widow on his monument in Lichfield Cathedral. The applause of a single human... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...1604. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Ltfe of Milton. His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. Life of Edmund Smith (alluding to the death of Garrick). That man is little to be envied whose patriotism... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 Seiten
...common friend. But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." — Life of Edmund Smith. "When I look back upon resolutions of improvement and amendment, which have... | |
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His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. 
