 | Hugh Fraser Campbell - 1883 - 128 pàgines
...with companions such as are not often found. (7.) I am disappointed by that stroke of death which lias eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. V. Point out the words of Keltic origin in the following, and account for their introduction into English... | |
 | Famous people - 1883 - 552 pàgines
...then at Bristol, received intelligence of Garrick's death, an event, according to Johnson, which " eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasures." She hurried at once to London, to be near Mrs. Garrick, henceforth to be doubly dear to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 pàgines
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 436 pàgines
...only the amiable qualities of private life but such astonishing dramatic talents as to well verify the observation of his friend, " His death eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public'stock of harmless pleasure."] AGE 70.] DEATH OF GARRICK. 315 " On Saturday last, being the 3Oth... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pàgines
...common friend ; but what are tho 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.' We are not then inclined to agree with the verdict which traces the vitality and force of Johnson's... | |
 | 1885 - 846 pàgines
...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. We are not then inclined to agree with the verdict which traces the vitality and force of Johnson's... | |
 | 1885 - 932 pàgines
...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." with this colossal compliment on the poor pretext of its falsehood ? Garrick's death, urge these dullards,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 pàgines
...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 have1 been found to quarrel with this colossal compliment on... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 pàgines
...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... | |
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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... 
