 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...  Papers of the Manchester Literary Club - Sida 1341875Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | George Hart - 1881 - 536 sidor
...Fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first : any man will forge a bar of iron if you give him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably ; and make a box, though a clumsy one ; but give him a Fiddle and a Fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing."... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 sidor
...other things we can do something at first Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer j not so well as a smith, but tolerably. A man will...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 Bos well,... | |
 | 1882 - 800 sidor
...forge a bar of iron if you give him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably ; and make a bos, though a clumsy one ; but give him a fiddle and a fiddlestick, and he can do nothing." That this reflection was not the result of musical enthusiasm on the part of the learned doctor may... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 sidor
...fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer; not so well as a smith, but tolerably....fiddle and a fiddlestick, and he can do nothing." On Monday, April 19, he called on me with Mrs. Williams, 1 James Harris was born in the Close, Salisbury,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 sidor
...fit-idle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer; not so well as a smith, but tolerably....fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing." XXL LITERATURE. WITH respect to the prospects held out to an adventurer in the career of literature,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 sidor
...fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably....fiddle and a fiddlestick, and he can do nothing." On Monday, April 19, he called on me with Mrs. Williams, 1 James Harris was born in the Close, Salisbury,... | |
 | Mountford John B. Baddeley - 1884 - 270 sidor
...Fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first: any man will forge a bar „ of iron if you give him a hammer; not so well as a smith, but tolerably ; and make a box, though a clumsy one, but give him a Fiddle and a Fiddle-stick, and be can do nothing."—Dr.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 sidor
...fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar oc iron, if you give him a hammer; not so well as a smith, but tolerably....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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 sidor
...fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will Jorge a bar of iron, if you give him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably....fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing.' On Monday, April 19, he called on me with Mrs. Williams, in Mr. Strahan's coach, and carried me out... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 sidor
...the fiddle. In all other things we can do something at first. Any man will forge a bar of iron if you give him a hammer ; not so well as a smith, but tolerably....fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii. 226. IO4 105 Finery: ' WHEN talking of dress, he said, " Sir, were I... | |
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