 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 oldal
...mind. 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." 2 To the merits of Goldsmith, as a writer, the testimony of critics almost innumerable might be adduced.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 oldal
...the papers have made public. He died of a fever, I am afraid more violent from uneasiness of mind. 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."1 To the merits of Goldsmith,... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 436 oldal
...Johnson's pen, does not " disgrace the walls " of that cathedral. J Johnson said of the dead man, " 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." But Goldsmith is one of... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 oldal
...man, " 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." But Goldsmith is one of those distinguished writers with respect to whom a plain line of distinction... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 oldal
...mind. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artilice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered: he was a very great man.''2 To the merits of Goldsmith, as a writer, the testimony of critics almost innumerable might... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 oldal
...say. Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a ferer, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress....squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and tolly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " 1 have just... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 oldal
...the papers have made public. He died of a fever, I am afraid more violent from uneasiness of mind. 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."2 To die merits of Goldsmith,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 oldal
...him not to call me Goldy.' 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. * Goldsmith,' he said, «... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 422 oldal
...thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ?" And again, " Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a...exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. Let not his frailties be remembered; he was a very great man." To these details, in Mr. Prior's Life... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 oldal
...so trusted before ?" And again, " Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone mucb further. He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. Let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man." To these details, in Mr. Prior's Life... | |
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