 | Hugh Fraser Campbell - English language - 1883 - 128 pages
...as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of noctared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. (6.) At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive...hours, with companions such as are not often found. (7.) I am disappointed by that stroke of death which lias eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have...has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character... | |
 | 1885 - 846 pages
...to find. Such was his amplitude of learning and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have...has gladdened life; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character... | |
 | American periodicals - 1885 - 858 pages
...to find. Such was his amplitude of learning and such his copiousness of communication, that it maybe doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not...has gladdened life; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...to find. Such was his amplitude of learning and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have...table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes, in which I have...many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions suchas are not often found — with one who has lengthened, • Mr. Warton informs me, "that this early... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 474 pages
...to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have...his friendship. At this man's table I enjoyed many chearful and instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1891 - 286 pages
...to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have...has gladdened life; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have...has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have...has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character... | |
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His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which... 
