 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 452af Thomas De Quincey - 1889 - 454 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Emil Reich - 1908 - 418 sider
...mankind, seem to have depraved her." On her entry, as there happened to be no chair for her, Dr. Johnson said with a smile : " Madam, you who so often occasion...the more easily excuse the want of one yourself." It is recorded that they both agreed that Queen Katharine in Henry VIII was the most natural character... | |
 | Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1909 - 372 sider
...apologising for Frank Barber's momentary inability to offer her a chair unencumbered by books, he said, " Madam, you who so often occasion a want of seats to...the more easily excuse the want of one yourself." It is told that our heroine was so inebriated with the incense burnt by Irish great ladies and the... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 sider
...Mrs. Siddons, and there being for a moment no available chair, " Madam," exclaimed he with a smile, " you who so often occasion a want of seats to other people, will the more readily excuse the want of one yourself." Johnson's most famous work was written in his old age. In... | |
 | Willis John Abbot - 1913 - 522 sider
...she called at his always ill-furnished lodgings, and he was somewhat put to it to find her a chair, "you who so often occasion a want of seats to other...the more easily excuse the want of one yourself." From one of the annoyances of a successful actress her stateliness and demeanor, tragic as well off... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 sider
...Isabella, in Shakspeare." Mr. Kemble has favored me with the following minute of what passed at this visit. "When Mrs. Siddons came into the room, there happened...the more 'easily excuse the want of one yourself." "Having placed himself by her, he with great good humor entered upon a consideration of the English... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 sider
...visit of Mrs. Siddons, and Johnson's saying with a smile, as there happened to be no chair ready : " Madam, you who so often occasion a want of seats to...the more easily excuse the want of one yourself." Mrs. Siddons thought Queen Katharine in Henry Vlll the most natural of Shakespeare's characters. "... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 sider
...visit of Mrs. Siddons, and Johnson's saying with a smile, as there happened to be no chair ready : " Madam, you who so often occasion a want of seats to...the more easily excuse the want of one yourself." Mrs. Siddons thought Queen Katharine in Henry PHI the most natural of Shakespeare's characters. " I... | |
 | Arthur Bingham Walkley - 1921 - 318 sider
...vastly obleeging, but where's the chair ? DR. JOHNSON. — Madam, you who have so often occasioned a want of seats to other people, will the more easily excuse the want of one yourself. MR. SHAKESPEARE. — Marry come up ! Wouldst not sit in my lap, Sal ? 'Tis not so deep as a well nor... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - 170 sider
...am glad to be disturbed. [Looking around and observing that no chair is ready for her] You, madam, who so often occasion a want of seats to other people,...will the more easily excuse the want of one yourself. I am greatly honoured by this attention. Mrs. SIDDONS. I have but a moment, sir; I am playing Queen... | |
 | Andre Bernard, Clifton Fadiman - 2000 - 808 sider
...hem of your garment." 3 (In 1783 Sarah Siddons paid a call on Dr. Johnson, then in his seventies.) "When Mrs. Siddons came into the room, there happened...the more easily excuse the want of one yourself.' " 4 Sarah Siddons's high dramatic style tended to spill over into her everyday life. (As Sydney Smith... | |
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