 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - Страниц: 440
...common friend. But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. " The book is full of wit and thought, but although a charming companion it is one of the worst of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - Страниц: 568
...common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed 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, he was in the company of... | |
 | 1890 - Страниц: 896
...and kindness o{ heart ; and his death, which came upon him unexpectedly, " eclipsed," Johnson said, " the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." But tho most accurate and discriminating character of Garrick, slightly tinged with satire, is that... | |
 | Edmund William Gosse - 1891 - Страниц: 462
...common friend. But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." The book is full of wit and thought, but although a charming companion it is one of the worst of guides.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - Страниц: 440
...common friend. But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. " The book is full of wit and thought, but although a charming companion it is one of the worst of... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - Страниц: 350
...which can only die with the English language : ' I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed 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 this colossal compliment on the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - Страниц: 492
...Johnson in his Lives of the Poets applied the same thought to Garrick's death, 'which has," he said, ' eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.' Life, i. 82. 6 ' One half of it had been a string of obscenities.' BARETTI. 7 See Life, iii. 374, where... | |
 | James Boaden - 1893 - Страниц: 506
...the Haymarket, a retirement took place which, in the words of our memorable sage, once more really ' eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.' I allude to the farewell acknowledgments of a gentleman whom I had the happiness to know, and long... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - Страниц: 670
...common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. (From the Same.) A TASK COMPLETED IN hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - Страниц: 660
...common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. (From the Same.) A TASK COMPLETED IN hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids... | |
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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... 
