 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is five him a hammer; not so well as a smith, ut tolerably. A man will saw a piece of wood, and make a... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 pagina’s
...as in piaying on the fiddle : in all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forgn a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer; not so well...smith, but tolerably. A man will saw a piece of wood, ana make a box, though a clumsy onr ; but give him л fiddle and a fiddle-ltick, and he can do no thing.... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1840 - 1002 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things, we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you srive him a hammer — not so well as a smith, but tolerably ; a man will saw a piece of wood, and... | |
 | The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - 336 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle : in all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron if you...a fiddle and a fiddle-stick and he can do nothing. THE LATEST CASE OF FOKGETFULNESS. THE greatest piece of forgetfulness we have ever heard of recently... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pagina’s
...is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Aay man will forge a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer;...fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing." [To Mrs. p.'C«.' Piorai he observed of Mr. Harris's dedication to his Hermes, that, though but fourteen... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much, as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you...fiddle and a fiddlestick, and he can do nothing." 354.— CHARACTER OF KEATS. MONCTON MlLNES. [MR. R. MONCTON MILNES, himself no mean poet, has recently... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 416 pagina’s
...power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you...box, though a clumsy one ; but give him a fiddle and fiddlestick, and he can do nothing." This, upon the whole, though reported by the one-sided Boswell,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 pagina’s
...is shown so much as in playing on SUICIDE. 333 the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you...box, though a clumsy one ; but give him a fiddle and fiddlestick, and he can do nothing." This, upon the whole, though reported by the one-sided Boswell,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pagina’s
...art is shown so much as in playing on SUICIDE. the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you...box, though a clumsy one ; but give him a fiddle and fiddlestick, and he can do nothing." This, upon the whole, though reported by the one-sided Boswell,... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1751 - 206 pagina’s
...shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Every man will forge a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer...box, though a clumsy one; but give him a fiddle and fiddlestick, and he can do nothing." — BoswelFs Life of Johnson. USE OP THE PYRAMIDS. AN early geographer,... | |
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That is indeed but little for a man to get, who does best that which so many endeavour to do. There is nothing, I think, in which the power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man... 
