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" When Mrs. Siddons came into the room, there happened to be no chair ready for her, which he observing, said with a smile, ' Madam, you who so often occasion a want of seats to other people, will the more easily excuse the want of one yourself. "
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey - Side 444
af Thomas De Quincey - 1889
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Mrs. Siddons

Nina H. Kennard - 1887 - 288 sider
...Catherine, and Isabella, in Shakespeare ." Boswell gives us also the account of what took place : — "When Mrs. Siddons came into the room, there happened...so often occasion a want of seats to other people 10 * will the more easily excuse the want of one yourself. ' " Having placed himself by her, he with...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776 ...

James Boswell - 1887 - 470 sider
...Shakspeare.' Mr. Kemble has favoured me with the following minute of what passed at this visit : — ' When Mrs. Siddons came into the room, there happened...with a smile, " Madam, you who so often occasion a wanl? of seats to other people, will the more easily excuse the want of one yourself." ' Having placed...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's ..., Bind 4;Bind 1780–1784

James Boswell - 1887 - 466 sider
...Shakspeare.' Mr. Kemble has favoured me with the following minute of what passed at this visit: — ' When Mrs. Siddons came into the room, there happened...chair ready for her, which he observing, said with a sm ile, " Madam, you who so often occasion a want of seats to other people, will the more easily excuse...
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Life of Samuel Johnson

Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 sider
...helped to nurse Johnson in his last illness, but Mrs. Williams died in September. smile, 'You, madam, who so often occasion a want of seats to other people,...the more easily excuse the want of one yourself.' Having placed himself by her, he, with great good humour, entered upon a consideration of the English...
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Life of Samuel Johnson

Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 sider
...account of his sister's reception at Bolt Court. " When Mrs. Siddons came into the room," he writes, " there happened to be no chair ready for her, which he observing said, with a smile, 'You, madam, who so often occasion a want of seats to other people, will the more easily excuse the...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Bind 4

James Boswell - 1889 - 570 sider
...Shakspeare." Mr. Kemble has favoured me with the following minute of what passed at this visit:— " When Mrs. Siddons came into the room, there happened...will the more easily excuse the want of one yourself " Having placed himself by her, he, with great good humour, entered upon a consideration of the English...
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Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons: Interspersed with Anecdotes of Authors and Actors

James Boaden - 1893 - 506 sider
...intention of exhibiting this winter the characters of Constance, Katharine, and Isabella, in Shakespeare.' When Mrs. Siddons came into the room there happened to be no chair ready for her. ' Madam,' said Johnson, with a smile, ' you who so often occasion a want of seats to other people will...
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Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons: Interspersed with Anecdotes of Authors and Actors

James Boaden - 1893 - 554 sider
...how often, from those who must be aware of the true word, he has heard 2 pantomime called pantomime. When Mrs. Siddons came into the room there happened to be no chair ready for her. 'Madam,' said Johnson, with a smile, ' you who so often occasion a want of seats to other people will...
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Doctor Johnson and the Fair Sex: A Study of Contrasts

William Henry Craig - 1895 - 300 sider
...Mrs. Siddons, the actress, paid him a visit ; and we are told that when she came into the room C 2 there happened to be no chair ready for her, which...often occasion a want of seats to other people will more easily excuse the want of one yourself." Boswell relates how the old man, at an evening party,...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Bind 2

Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896 - 470 sider
...Hannah More, by Wilberforce, and many others known as Evangelical Christians, is always capable, in lax conversation, of being translated into a vague...Boswell reports. — M. 2 Published in 1777.— M. Catherine. All these, in different degrees and different ways, were exquisite. But the readings from...
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