| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...applied to the Reverend Dr. Taylor to interpose. Johnson was at first very obstinate. ' Sir, (said he) the fellow wants me to make Mahomet run mad, that...opportunity of tossing his hands and kicking his heels'.' He was, however, at last, with difficulty, prevailed on to comply with Garrick's wishes, so as to allow... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...applied to the Reverend Dr. Taylor to interpose. Johnson was at first very obstinate. ' Sir, (said he) the fellow wants me to make Mahomet run mad, that...opportunity of tossing his hands and kicking his heels'.' He was, however, at last, with difficulty, prevailed on to comply with Garrick's wishes, so as to allow... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 páginas
...applied to the Reverend Dr. Taylor to interpose. Johnson was at first very 'obstinate. " Sir, (said he) the fellow wants me to make Mahomet run mad, that...an opportunity of tossing his hands and kicking his heels."1 He was, however, at last, with difficulty, prevailed on to 'comply with Garrick's wishes,... | |
| 1857 - 610 páginas
...Garrick were sturdily resisted by the author, who told Dr. Taylor when he attempted to mediate, ' Sir, the fellow wants me to make Mahomet run ' mad, that...an opportunity of tossing his hands and ' kicking hia heels.' The ' Rambler ' came out every Tuesday and Saturday, from March, 1750, to March, 1752.... | |
| 1902 - 642 páginas
...declamations. Valentine repeats some of Hamlet's very phrases. ' Sir,' said Johnson of Garrick and ' Irene,' ' the fellow wants me ' to make Mahomet run mad, that he may have an oppor' tnnity of tossing his hands and kicking his heels.' Tilburina went mad in white satin. The stage... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 514 páginas
...applied to the Reverend Dr. Taylor to interpose. Johnson was at first very obstinate. " Sir, (said he) the fellow wants me to make Mahomet run mad, that...opportunity of tossing his hands and kicking his heels." 7 He was, however, at last, with difficulty, prevailed on to comply with Garrick's wishes, so as to... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 páginas
...applied to the Reverend Dr. Taylor to interpose. Johnson was at first very obstinate. Sir, (said be) the fellow wants me to make Mahomet run mad, that...an opportunity of tossing his hands and kicking his heels."s He was, however, at last, with difficulty, prevailed on to comply with Garrick'a wishes, so... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 páginas
...Garrick's projected innovations in his own tragedy; " that fellow," he said, " wants me to make Ma" homet mad, that he may have an opportunity of " tossing his hands, and kicking his heels." For the faults of the piece, however, it is but circuitous and conjectural justice to make Garrick... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 384 páginas
...applied to the reverend Dr. Taylor to interpose. Johnson was at first very obstinate. " Sir," said he, " the fellow wants me to make Mahomet run mad, that...opportunity of tossing his hands, and kicking his heels." He was, however, at last, with difficulty, prevailed on to comply with Garrick's wishes, so as to allow... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 páginas
...applied to the Reverend Dr. Taylor to interpose. Johnson was at first very obstinate. Sir, (said he) the fellow wants me to make Mahomet run mad, that...have an opportunity of tossing his hands and kicking hie heels."s He was, however, at last, with difficulty, prevailed on to comply with Garrick's wishes,... | |
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