 In the mean time we did not forget our duty, and though we had a better comedy going, in which Johnson was chief actor, we betook ourselves in good time to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our Station...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 335edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the eurtain. As our stations were pre-concerted, so were our signals for plaudits...since lost to his friends and the world at large, AHam Drummond, of amiable memory, who was gifted by nature with the most sonorous, and at the same... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our stations rincipal ornament in Chinese ar work! at large, Adam Drummond, of amiable memory, who was gifted by nature with the most so- 1 norous,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 402 pages
...to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our stations were preconcerted, so were our signals for plaudits...look for them, and how to follow them up. " We had among us a very worthy and efficient member, long since lost to his friends and the world at large,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our stations were preconcerted, so were our signals for plaudits...look for them, and how to follow them up. " We had among us a very worthy and efficient member, long since lost to his friends and the world at large,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our stations were preconcerted, so were our signals for plaudits...look for them, and how to follow them up. " We had among us a very worthy and efficient member, long since lost to his friends and the world at large,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1854 - 614 pages
...our separate and allotted posts, and waited the ад-ful drawing up of the curtain. As our stations were preconcerted, so were our signals for plaudits...look for them, and how to follow them up. " We had among us a very worthy and efficient member, long since lost to bin friends and tbe world at large,... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...because he was told to do that, but because he found himself unable to do anything else. "We had among " us a very worthy and efficient member, long since lost to his friends and the " world at large, Adam Drnmmond, of amiable memory, who was gifted by nature " with the most sonorous, and at the same time... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 414 pages
...to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our stations were preconcerted, so were our signals for plaudits...follow them up. We had amongst us a very worthy and efficient^member, long since lost to his friends and the world at large, Adam Drummond, of amiable... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 424 pages
...to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our stations were preconcerted, so were our signals for plaudits...follow them up. We had amongst us a very worthy and efficient'member, long since lost to his friends and the world at large, Adam Drummond, of amiable... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our stations were preconcerted, so were our signals for plaudits...look for them, and how to follow them up. " We had among us a very worthy and efficient member, long since lost to his friends and the world at large,... | |
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