 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...fanciful reverie, he observed Johnson shaking his sides, and laughing. Upon which he smartly proceeded, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES." Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...fanciful reverie, he observed Johnson shaking his sides, and laughing. Upon which he smartly proceeded, '" Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES." Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...fanciful reverie, he observed Johnson shaking his sides, and laughing. Upon which he smartly proceeded, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like •WHALES." Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exerc|sed his tálents, in fable,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...reverie, he observed Johnson shaking his sides, and langhing : upon which he smartly proceeded — " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." The English Roscins having been mentioned, Johnson said of him, " Garrick's conversation is gay and... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...reverie, he observed Johnson shaking his sides, and langhing : upon which he smartly proceeded — " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not' so easy as you seem to think ; for if yon were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." The English Rosclus having been... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...fanciful Гeveпe' be sb""s«I Johnson shaking u ,nnghing. Upon which he smartly proceeded, s• Wb» tbis is not so easy as you seem to think ; for if you were to The modes /¡hee taik, they would talk like WHALES." which men ^ t|)ough remarkable for his great variety... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...fanciful reverie, he observed Johnson shaking his sides, and laughing. Upon which he smartly proceeded, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES." Johnson, though remarkable for his great 'variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...reverie, he observed Johnson shaking his sides, and laughing : upon which he smartly proceeded — " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think ; for if you were (o make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." The English Roscins having been mentioned,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 472 pages
...fanciful reverie, he observed Johnson shaking his sides, and laughing. Upon which he smartly proceeded, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES." Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...the Little Fishes. Observing that Doctor Johnson was laughing scornfully, he proceeded smartly ; " Why, Dr Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to...little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." To support the expcnce of his new dignities, Goldsmith laboured incessantly at the literary oar. The... | |
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Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES. 
