Memoirs of Doctor Burney, Band 2E. Moxon, 1832 - 404 Seiten |
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Seite 125 - Doctor; and of every one else, when in that presence, he was unobservant, if not contemptuous. In truth, when he met with Dr. Johnson, he commonly forbore even answering anything that was said, or attending to anything that went forward; lest he should miss the smallest sound from that voice to which he paid such exclusive, though merited, homage. But the moment that voice burst forth, the attention which it excited in Mr.
Seite 97 - But some people,' said Mr Seward, 'are old and young at the same time, for they wear so well that they never look old.
Seite 125 - and what company have you kept, not to know that ?' " Mr. Boswell now, doubly curious, yet always apprehensive of falling into some disgrace with Dr. Johnson, said, in a low tone, which he knew the Doctor could not hear, to Mrs. Thrale : ' Pray, ma'am, what's a Branghton ? Do me the favour to tell me ! Is it some animal hereabouts ?' " Mrs. Thrale only heartily laughed, but without answering, as she saw one of her guests uneasily fearful of an explanation. But Mr. Seward cried : ' I'll tell you,...
Seite 95 - When we were summoned to dinner, Mrs. Thrale made my father and me sit on each side of her. I said that I hoped I did not take Dr. Johnson's place — for he had not yet appeared. 'No,' answered Mrs. Thrale, 'he will sit by you, which I am sure will give him great pleasure.
Seite 99 - David, madam," said the doctor, "looks much older than he is; for his face has had double the business of any other man's. It is never at rest; when he speaks one minute, he has quite a different countenance to what he assumes the next. I don't believe he ever kept the same look for half an hour together in the whole course of his life; and such an eternal, restless, fatiguing play of the muscles must certainly wear out a man's face before its real time.
Seite 125 - He spoke the Scotch accent strongly, though by no means so as to affect, even slightly, his intelligibility to an English ear. He had an odd mock solemnity of tone and manner, that he had acquired imperceptibly from constantly thinking of and imitating Dr. Johnson ; whose own solemnity, nevertheless, far from mock, was the result of pensive rumination. There was also something slouching in the gait and dress of Mr. Boswell, that wore an air, ridiculously enough, of purporting to personify the same...
Seite 54 - he should not, in a Royal apartment, expect the hallowing and clamour of the one shilling gallery. The King, I doubt not, gave him as much applause as was rationally his due: and, indeed, great and uncommon as is the merit of Mr Garrick, no man will be bold enough to assert...
Seite 68 - If it were not for depriving the ladies of the fire, — I should like to stand upon the hearth myself I " 1 A smile gleamed upon every face at this pointed speech.
Seite 49 - He pored over them, shelf by shelf, almost brushing them with his eyelashes from near examination. At last, fixing upon something that happened to hit his fancy, he took it down ; and, standing aloof from the company, which he seemed clean and clear to forget, he began, without further ceremony, and very composedly, to read to himself; and as intently as if he had been alone in his own study.
Seite 188 - We will stake our reputation for critical sagacity on this, that no such paragraph as that which we have last quoted, can be found in any of Madame D'Arblay's works except Cecilia. Compare with it the following sample of her later style. "If beneficence be judged by the happiness which it diffuses, whose claim, by that proof, shall stand higher than that of Mrs. Montagu, from the munificence with which she celebrated her annual festival for those hapless artificers who perform the most abject offices...