 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 páginas
...eminent friend ', which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superiour to all studied compositions :— " He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill...Johnson had abundant homage paid to him during his life9, so no writer in this nation ever had such an accumulation of literary honours after his death.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 570 páginas
...eminent friend ', which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superiour to all studied compositions : — " He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill...Johnson had abundant homage paid to him during his life3, so no writer in this nation ever had such an accumulation of literary honours after his death.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 páginas
...friend ('), which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superior to all studied compositions : — " He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill...Johnson had abundant homage paid to him during his life (2), so no writer in this nation ever had such an accumulation of literary honours after his death.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 páginas
...eminent friend *, which he uttered with air abrupt felicity, superiour to all studied compositions: — " He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill...up. — Johnson is dead. — Let us go to the next besti there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson." As Johnson had abundant homage... | |
 | William Robert Spencer (hon.) - 1835 - 268 páginas
...because no one was like him, no one could take his place. Of him might it well be said : " He has left a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Let us go to the next best — there is nobody : no man can be said to put you in mind of William Spencer."*... | |
 | 1836 - 540 páginas
...because no one was like him, no one could take his place. Of him might it well be said, " He has left a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Let us go to the next best — there is nobody : no man can be said to put you in mind of William Spencer."... | |
 | 1836 - 492 páginas
...because no one was like him, no one could take his place. Of him might it well be said, " He has left a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Let us go to the next best — there is nobody : no man can be said to put you in mind of William Spencer."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 páginas
...friend <, which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superiour to all studied compositions : — "lie has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill...paid to him during his life », so no writer in this buried wilh all possible funeral rites and honours. In all processions and solemnities something will... | |
 | 1848 - 886 páginas
...shed upon our sphere so bright and steady a lustre: Burke, Pitt, Fox, Windham, Sheridan. They have made a chasm which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Let us go on to the next best — there is nobody — no man can be said to put you in mind of them.... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 páginas
...died, it was said of him by one who had been intimately acquainted with him nearly thirty years,—" He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill...no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson." And does not this observation hold on to the present day ? We have had a Southey, a pure writer, and... | |
| |
He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best : there is nobody ; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson. 
