 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 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." " Glow-worm (') lying in the garden saw a candle in a neighbouring palace, — and complained of the... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...he did not execute, he observed Johnson shaking his sides and laughing, and immediately continued, " Why Dr. Johnson this is not so easy as you seem to...little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." On another occasion when Beauclerk was present, Goldsmith talked of a project for having a third theatre... | |
 | 1837 - 646 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...little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." This is a very pungent and admirable repartee, with a dash of philosophy in it ; but it is surpassed... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...he did not execute, he observed Johnson shaking his sides and laughing, and immediately continued, "Why Dr. Johnson this is not so easy as you seem to...make little fishes talk they would talk like whales." On another occasion when Beauclerk was present, Goldsmith talked of a project for having a third theatre... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...he did not execute, he observed Johnson shaking his sides and laughing, and immediately continued, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." On another occasion when Beauclerk was present, Goldsmith talked of a project for having a third theatre... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 564 pages
...he did not execute, he observed Johnson shaking his sides and laughing, and immediately continued, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." On another occasion when Beauclerk was present, Goldsmith talked of a project for having a third theatre... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 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.' During this argument, Goldsmith sat in restless agitation, from a wish to get in and shine. Finding... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 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.' with it in his hand, like a gamester, who at the close of a long night, lingers for a little while,... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Medicine - 1839 - 384 pages
...never executed, he observed Johnson • shaking his sides and laughing, and immediately continued, " why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." On another occasion, when Beauclerk was present, Goldsmith talked of a project for having a third theatre... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 pages
...fable of the Little Fishes. Observing that Dr. Johnson was laughing scornfully, he proceeded smartly; "Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." To support the expense 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. 
