 | Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 392 pàgines
...wrote his epitaph, introducing into it the deathless sentence * * * " by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." HREE months in London and Johnson succeeded in getting a place on the editorial staff of " The Gentleman's... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1928 - 266 pàgines
...Gilbert Walmsley: "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 harmless pleasures." We have it on the authority of Arthur Murphy that, after Garrick's death, Johnson " never... | |
 | 1885 - 860 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... | |
 | Archibald Henderson - 1957 - 36 pàgines
...avatar of Dr. Johnson. As Johnson said of Garrick, so may it far more appropriately be said of Shaw : "His death eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." I have never known any man who entertained so deep-rooted and acute a sense of obligation to the common... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pàgines
...eulogy on the dramatic talents of his deceased friend, (p. 386.) EVA MARIA, relict of DAVID GARRICK, Esq. caused this monument to be erected to the memory...impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." JOBMSOB. INDEX ABYSSINIA. See Lola. Randan. Academy, Royal, 182. 31,5. 316. Adams, Rev. Dr, 21. 23.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 710 pàgines
...inscribed Johnson's characteristic remark : ' I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.' Here, beneath the statue in Poets' Corner, is an inscription by Pratt (substituted for one prepared... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 pàgines
...death of Garrick: But what are the hopes of man! l am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. The rhythm of this is self-consciously elaborated (Johnson has indeed been accused of preferring euphony... | |
 | John Richardson - 2000 - 416 pàgines
...old tutor and friend, declared at the service, 'I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.' A NEW SESSIONS HOUSE AT CLERKENWELL Tlie handsome building now occupied by the Freemasons which stands... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2003 - 494 pàgines
...died in 1779, provoking Johnson's famous tribute 'I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.' He was buried in Westminster Abbey at the foot of Shakespeare's statue in what was virtually a state... | |
 | Malcolm Muggeridge - 2003 - 292 pàgines
...estimable, his follies easily forgiven, and his death (to use Johnson's splendid memorial to Garrick) 'has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure'. Esquire, 1966 PG Wodehouse The most extreme example I ever met with of this propensity of the pure... | |
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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... 
