Samuel Johnson’s Insults  Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium
of Snubs, Sneers, Slights and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-
Century MasterWhen Boswell spoke up for actors – “you never will
allow merit to a player” – Johnson cried, “Merit, Sir! what
merit?… What, Sir, a fellow who claps a hump on his back, and a
lump on his leg, and cries I am Richard the Third?” Boswell
wasn’t convinced. “My dear Sir! you may turn anything into
ridicule… Who can repeat Hamlet’s soliloquy, ‘To be, or not to
be,’ as Garrick does it?” Johnson replied, “Anybody may.”
Pointing at an eight-year-old boy in the room, he added, “Jemmy,
there, will do it as well in a week.”  Y tenía razón, el viejo
gruñón. Maldita estirpe de giddy-brained merry-andrews  About
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