 ... of the boats, and other circumstances, are all very good description ; but do not impress the mind at once with the horrible idea of immense height. The impression is divided ; you pass on by computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 90by James Boswell - 1823Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride ' said, ." The mention of this gentleman led us to talk of...visit which he expressed a wish that then appeared JOHNSOX : " Nay, Sir, if he had been taught by Sheridan, he would have cleared the room." GARRICK :... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride' said, she could not cast her shoe to the top of one of the...some one (to rouse Johnson) wickedly said, that he »as unfortunate in not having been taught oratory l1y Sheridan. JOHNSON. " Nay, sir, if he had been... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in 'The Mourning Bride' said, ho know him. It is painful to me to A... ـ 0 "6 1835 G. Dearborn"! Boswell James" James Boswell( someone (to rouse Johnson) wickedly said, that he was unfortunate in not having been taught oratory... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride ' said, she could not cast her shoe to the top of one of the...taught by Sheridan, he would have cleared the room." GAITRICK. " Sheridan has too much vanity to be a good man." — We shall now see Johnson's mode of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride' said Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice, Cry" Shall...parts of Italy : Blood and destruction shall be so " The impression made on Johnson by this description, is partly, I think, to be ascribed to his peculiar... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...computation from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride ' said she could not cast her shoe to the top of one of the...unfortunate in not having been taught oratory by Sheridan. JoHVtox. " Nay, Sir, if he had been taught by Sheridan, he would have cleared the room." GARBICI. ''... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 pages
...stage of the tremendous spaee to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride' said she eould not east her shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple,...it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it.' " Taken as pieees of pure deseription, there is only one way of testing the different value of the... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...computation from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride ' said - \v.- »hould have been at a loss to account for all this paradoxical preference of Congrcve to Shakespeare,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...computation from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride ' said she could not cast her shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the tomple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it." : Talking of a barrister who had a bad... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 1022 pages
...computation, from one stage of the tremendous space to another. Had the girl in ' The Mourning Bride ' said To these passages the author of the old play derives...claim ; for hia Leir weeps after the vituperations of " Taken as pieces of pure description, there is only one way of testing the different value of the... | |
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