I shall conclude this Topick with a Rebus, which has been lately hewn out in Free-stone, and erected over two of the Portals of Blenheim House, being the Figure of a monstrous Lion tearing to Pieces a little Cock.
Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you.
He should take care not to be made a proverb; and, therefore, should avoid having any one topick of which people can say, "We shall hear him upon it.
A printer having acquired a fortune sufficient to keep his coach, was a good topick for the credit of literature.
Mr. Ogilvie was unlucky enough to choose for the topick of his conversation the praises of his native country.
I found his Journey the common topick of conversation in London at this time, wherever I happened to be.
As for Major Tarry, he thrashed each topickat if his tongue were a little rattan cane.
Sirloins of beef were allowed to freeze into glaciers of fat, horse radish lost its sting, and the most frothy ale was flat in the presence of such an absorbing topick of conversation.
However, this is not an oration of farewell, so I will not longer emphasize the melancholy topick of mutability.
The inactivity of our army in Flanders has, indeed, furnished a popular topick of declamation and ridicule.
But his acuteness was most eminently signalized at the masquerade, where he discovered his acquaintance through their disguises, with such wonderful facility, as has afforded the family an inexhaustible topick of conversation.
We began now to wish for conversation; but no one seemed inclined to descend from his dignity, or first propose a topick of discourse.
I could imagine to myself no happiness, but in vacant jollity, and uninterrupted leisure: nor entertain my friends with any other topick than the vexation and uncertainty of trade, and the happiness of rural privacy.
By this method of life Gulosulus has so impressed on his imagination the dignity of feasting, that he has no other topick of talk, or subject of meditation.
Every man has some favourite topickof conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
Take up whatever topick you please, he is ready to meet you[67].
He is not the first who has chosen this barren topickfor the boast of his fertility.
His topick is such as will always serve its purpose; an accusation of acting and preaching only for preferment; and he exhorts the commons "carefully to provide for their protection against pulpit law.
Sim's favourite topick of conversation is the narrowness of the human mind, the fallaciousness of our senses, the prevalence of early prejudice, and the uncertainty of appearances.
I could image to myself no happiness, but in vacant jollity, and uninterrupted leisure: nor entertain my friends with any other topick than the vexation and uncertainty of trade, and the happiness of rural privacy.
We talked of composition, which was a favourite topick of Dr Watson's, who first distinguished himself by lectures on rhetorick.
The penurious gentleman of our acquaintance, formerly alluded to, afforded us a topick of conversation to-night.
Emigration was at this time a common topickof discourse.
His taking up thetopick of their not having so much learning, was, though ingenious, yet a fallacy in logick.
The topick of emigration being again introduced, Dr Johnson said, that 'a rapacious chief would make a wilderness of his estate'.
I shall then do what I can, to enforce the topick you mentioned; but at present I cannot enter upon it, as I am in a very great hurry; for I intend to begin my journey within an hour or two.
Every letter Mamma has had has been full of nothing else; if care is not taken, it will be like the invasion, a constant topick when you have nothing to say.
In the early part of Blackmore's time, a citizen was a term of reproach; and his place of abode was another topick to which his adversaries had recourse, in the penury of scandal.
We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would take away the greatest, perhaps the only, topick we have left.
Emigration was at this time a common topick of discourse[60].
We talked of composition, which was a favourite topick of Dr.
I shall then do what I can, to enforce the topick you mention; but at present I cannot enter upon it, as I am in a very great hurry; for I intend to begin my journey within an hour or two.
Johnson's character has been lessened by recording such various instances of his lively wit and acute judgment, on every topick that was presented to his mind.
One may misconceive the motive by which a person is induced to discuss a particular topick (as in the case of Dr.
The penurious gentleman of our acquaintance, formerly alluded to[852], afforded us a topick of conversation to-night.
A printer having acquired a fortune sufficient to keep his coach, was a good topick for the credit of literature[662].
What philosophy suggests to us on this topick is probable: what scripture tells us is certain.
I found his Journey the common topick of conversation in London at this time, wherever I happened to be.
Lord Mountstuart's bill for a Scotch Militia[1264], in supporting which his Lordship had made an able speech in the House of Commons, was now a pretty general topick of conversation.
The conversation on this topick lasted some time, and probably would not have broke off so soon, if it had not been interrupted by two young ladies coming in to ask Miss Betsy and Miss Flora if they were not for the Park that morning.
For he said, 'I forced myself to read it, only because it was a common topick of conversation.
To a writer whose design is so comprehensive and miscellaneous that he may accommodate himself with a topick from every scene of life, or view of nature, it is no great aggravation of his task to be obliged to a sudden composition.
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