 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...observed Johnson shaking his sides and laughing ; whereupon he made this home thrust. ' Why, ' Mr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think...little fishes talk, they would talk ' like WHALES.' This was what Garrick would call a forcible hug, and it shook laughter out of Johnson in his own despite.... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...observed Johnson shaking his sides and laughing ; whereupon he made this home thrust. ' Why, ' Mr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think...little fishes talk, they would talk ' like WHALES.' This was what Garrick would call a forcible hug, and it shook laughter out of Johnson in his own despite.... | |
 | India - 1849 - 634 pages
...birds." " The skill," continued he, " consists in making them talk like little fishes." While he indulged himself in this fanciful reverie, he observed Johnson...little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES." I have quoted this anecdote at length, in hopes that it may be usefully applied by some who read these... | |
 | 1849 - 770 pages
...fish.' Just then observing that Dr. Johnson was shaking his sides and laughing, he immediately added, ' why Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to...make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales ?' „ " Goldsmith, in conversation, shone most when he least thought of shining ; when he gave up... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 pages
...birds. The skill," continued he, " consists in making them talk like little fishes." While he indulged himself in this fanciful reverie, he observed 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." Johnson, though remarkable for his... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 402 pages
...nothing of it. I'd rather hear you whistle a Scotch tune.' " THE SHE-BEAR AND THE HE-BEAR. 189 added, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." But though Goldsmith suffered frequent mortifications in society from the overbearing, and sometimes... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...nothing of it. I'd rather hear you whistle a Scotch tune." " THE SHE-BEAR AND THE HE-BEAR. 189 added, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." But though Goldsmith suffered frequent mortifications in society from the overbearing, and sometimes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...fishes." Just then observing that Dr. Johnson was shaking his sides and laughing, he immediately added, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem...fishes talk, they would talk like whales." Johnson, in fact, was spoiled by being the oracle of the circle in which he moved. He talked as he wrote, for... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...chanced to be discussing the composition of fables, Goldsmith cried, with equal truth and aptness, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you " seem to think ; for, if you had to write a fable upon " fishes, you would make all your little fishes talk like "whales!"* As poets... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...chanced to be discussing the composition of fables, Goldsmith cried, with equal truth and aptness, " Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you " seem to think; for, if you had to write a fable upon " fishes, you would make all your little fishes talk like « whales!"* As... | |
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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. 
