 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 pages
...Bishop Percy. uttered with an abrupt excellence, superiour to all studied composition : — " He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up,...No man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson." As Johnson had abundant homage paid to him during his life," so no writer in this nation ever had such... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 pages
...friend 2, which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superior to all studied compositions : — 'He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up,...no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.' As Johnson had abundant homage paid to him during his 1 On the subject of Johnson I may adopt the words... | |
 | Norman Moore, Stephen Paget, Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London - 1905 - 384 pages
...world of critics and authors : and that might be said of him, which was written of Johnson—He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up,...no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson. Hunter had founded, or had helped to found, more than one of the Medical Societies of London. The Lyceum... | |
 | Norman Moore, Stephen Paget, Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London - 1905 - 378 pages
...world of critics and authors : and that might be said of him, which was written of Johnson — He /ias made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up,...no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson. Hunter had founded, or had helped to found, more than one of the Medical Societies of London. The Lyceum... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 542 pages
...him. Percy, uttered with an abrupt excellence, superiour to all studied compos tion : — " He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up,...No man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson." As Johnson had abundant homage paid to him during his life,* so no writer in this nation ever had such... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 pages
...touchingly affectionate, and on December i3th he died. " He has made a chasm," said Gerard Hamilton, " 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 Johnson." Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 pages
...friend, which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superior to all studied compositions : — "He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up,...no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson." A monument for him, in Westminster-Abbey, was resolved upon; but the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's,... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 pages
...eminent friend, which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superior to all studied compositions:—'He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up,...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.' Abel Drugger, 298. Abercrombie,... | |
 | George Lacey May - 1920 - 242 pages
...his biographer, worshipped him as a dog his master. When he died, one of his friends said, " He has made a chasm which not only nothing can fill up but...no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson." U It is to Boswell, of course, that we owe, in what is perhaps the greatest biography written in any... | |
 | Robert William Chapman - 1920 - 166 pages
...once,, and such as only one man could have written. We may say of it what Hamilton said of its author, ' No man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson '. Johnson's book of travel is utterly unlike all other books of travel. It is, however, a genuine... | |
| |
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. 
