 | William Mathews - 1881 - 358 sayfa
...pinnacle of dullness to which he may not soar. Johnson recognized this when he said of the elder Sheridan: "Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it...taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity is not in nature." ANGLING. OLDEN June, — the " leafy month,"... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 sayfa
...party : they would have nobody above them, but they do not tell you they would have nobody under them." Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must...taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity is not in nature. Of Thomas Sheridan, father of Richard Brinsley... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 216 sayfa
...heard of one other Johnsonian remark. " Why, sir," he had said, " Sherry is dull, naturally dull j but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature." At another time he said, " Sheridan... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1883 - 924 sayfa
...was abroad at the time, and did not return till after Bishop Ashe's death, which took place in i7i7. Mr. Craik insists that when it is stated that Bishop...great deal of pains to become what we see him now. Sucri an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in nature") being very naturally pooh-poohed by the biographers... | |
 | 1883 - 886 sayfa
...blood, made it — within a few weeks or months — the subject of a letter to an absent friend Î This is really the whole evidence of the slightest...latter years — Dr Lyon, Mrs Dingley, Mrs Brent, Mrs Ridge way, and others — deny that any ceremony took place ; and almost the last writing which Stella... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 398 sayfa
...Johnson graphically described these persons in his account of the conversation of the elder Sheridan : " Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must...taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity is not in nature." Yet never will you extort from such persons... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant - 1883 - 216 sayfa
...lexicographer. " Sir, it is burning a candle at Dover to show light at Calais." But when Johnson says, "Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull: but it must...taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in nature." — we acknowledge the wit, but doubt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 sayfa
...saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure in circulating: " Wny, sir, Sherry is dull; naturally dull : but it must...taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in nature. " He now added: "Sheridan cannot bear... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 722 sayfa
...a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure to circulate. " Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull ; but it must have taken him a great deal of 1 This opinion was given by him more at large at a subsequent period. See Journal of a Tour to the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 sayfa
...a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure to circulate. " Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull ; but it must have taken him a great deal of 1 This opinion was given by him more at large at a subsequent period. See Journal of a Tour to the... | |
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Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature. 
