Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not... Boswell's Life of Johnson - 224. oldalszerző: James Boswell - 1917 - 574 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 oldal
...mortality, and the dread of his own dissolution. " Poor dear Goldsmith," he tells Mr Langton, '• died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. His debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. But let not his frailties be remembered... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 oldal
...letter so long unanswered, but I had nothing particular to say. Chambers, you find, is gone far, und poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a...it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of ex pence. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great men. " I have just begun to... | |
| 1921 - 1162 oldal
...Eobertson and Hume. Even this proved insufficient to supply his wants ; and, in the words of Johnson, he " raised money and squandered it by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense." When the end came it was found that he was two thousand pounds in debt. " Was ever poet so... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 536 oldal
...nothing particular to say. Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much farther. He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by...it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 oldal
...letter 80 long unanswered, but 1 had nothing particular to say. Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a...believe, by the fear of distress. He had raised money and xquandered it, by every artitice of acquisition and folly of expence. But let not his frailties be... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 oldal
...letter so long unanswered, but I had nothing particular to say. Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a...it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to print... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 378 oldal
...letter so long unanswered, but I had nothing particular to say. Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a...it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to print... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 oldal
...letter so long unanswered, but I had nothing particular to say. Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much further. • He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by tha. fear of distress. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and... | |
| 1837 - 638 oldal
...opinion that he owed not less than 2000^. Was ever poet so trusted before !" He subsequently writes, " He had raised money, and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man." It is still more deeply... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1884 - 652 oldal
...fellow-creatures. Dr. Johnson put the whole matter succinctly when, upon the death of Goldsmith, he said : " Let not his frailties be remembered — he was a very great man ! " Men of genius are at least entitled to those ordinary civilities which enlightened communities... | |
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