 | 1834 - 614 pages
...biography seems to value itself upon perpetuating every thing that is injurious and detracting. 41 1 perfectly recollect the candid answer Garrick once...harsh and unkind in his speeches, both of and to him ; Nine, he replied, it is very natural ; is it not to be expected he should be angry, that I, who have... | |
 | 1834 - 784 pages
...perpetrating every thing that is injurious and detracting. I perfectly recollect," adds Hannah More, " the candid answer Garrick once made to my inquiry,...be expected he should be angry, that I, who have so mucli less merit than he, should have had so much greater success ?' " Up to December of the year 1786,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 pages
...detracting. I perfectly recollect," adds Hannah More, " the candid answer Garrick once made to my enquiry, why Johnson was so often harsh and unkind in his speeches,...be angry, that I, who have so much less merit than le, should have had so much greater success?'" Up to December of the year 1786, no account exists of... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...against Garrick. " This new-fashioned biography seems to value " itself upon perpetuating everything that is injurious and detracting. I perfectly " recollect..." he replied, ' it is very natural ; is it not to Ix: expected he should be angry, that " ' I, who have so much less merit than he, should have had so... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...against Garrick. " This new-fashioned biography seems to value ' itself upon perpetuating everything that is injurious and detracting. I perfectly ' recollect...to my inquiry why Johnson was ' so often harsh and nnkind in his speeches, both of and to him. ' Why, Nine,' ' he replied, ' it is very natural ; is it... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...the candid answer Garrick 'once made to my inquiry why John' son was go often harsh and unkind in 1 his speeches, both of and to him. * Why, ' 'Nine,'...than he, should have had so " 'much greater success?' " Memoirs, H. 16. On the other hand, see BosiceU, vii. 137-8. ** Garrick was always the more considerate... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1874 - 360 pages
...riches. This led him very unjustly to say very severe things, which Garrick not unfrequently retorted I perfectly recollect the candid answer Garrick once...was so often harsh and unkind in his speeches both to and of him. ' Why, Nine,' he replied, ' it is very natural ; is it not to be expected he should... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pages
...been done by a scoundrel commissary'5.' This was most fallacious reasoning. I was sure, for once, that 'why Johnson was so often harsh and unkind in his speeches both of 1 See ante, i. 402. ' See ante, i. 167. 3 See /or/, under Sept. 30, 1783. 4 See post, ib., where Johnson... | |
 | John Forster - 1871 - 544 pages
...perpetuating " everything that is injurious and detracting. I perfectly recollect the candid answer " Gurrick once made to my inquiry why Johnson was so often harsh...'than he, should have had so much greater success? '" Jfemoirs, ii. 10. On the other hand, see Bosœdl, vii. 137-8. J Garrick was always the nmre considerate... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 334 pages
...made to my inquiry why Johnson was so often harsh and unkind in his speeches, both of and to hirn. ' Why, Nine,' he replied, ' it is very natural: is it...merit than he, should have had so much greater success ?' " — Memoirs, ii. 16. On the other hand, see BosweU, vii. 137-138. 1 Garrick was always the more... | |
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Nine, he replied, it is very natural ; is it not to be expected he should be angry, that I, who have so much less merit than he, should have had so much greater success ? The book however, in general, places Johnson's character very high. 
