...language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness. . . . Let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man.' Mr. Forster says : ' He worthily did the work that was in him to do ; proved himself in his garret...

...language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness. . . . Let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man.' Mr. Forster says : ' He worthily did the work that was in him to do ; proved himself in his garret...

...Chambers, yon find, if "gone far " (he had set out for India). " and poor Goldsmith is gone much farther. " He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. He had raised " money," &c. (ante, 395). " I wrote the following tetrastich on poor Goldsmith," &c. (post, 428). Jiotnccll,...

...— is not anxious to know what he did with his guineas, or whether the milkman •was ever paid. " He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. BUT LET NOT JUS FRAILTIES BE REMEMBERED t HE WAS A VERY GREAT MAN." This is Johnson's wise...

...author — is not anxious to know what he did with his guineas, or whether the milkman was ever paid. " 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 VERT GREAT MAN." This is Johnson's wise...

...up the picture of the life of this gentle poet is ready to echo Johnson's estimate of his friend : " He had raised money and squandered it by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered; lie was a very great man." Goldsmith was undoubtedly...

...of the days of his prosperity, since what Johnson said of him in these days is incontestable:— " He had raised money and squandered it by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense H ; but the absolute privations of his Grub Street days were due to the sweating of such Egyptian...

...that he owed not less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ! " And again : " He 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." His body was buried in...

...work was written in so diffuse a style. But as Johnson said of Goldsmith, so we may say of Lounsbury : "Let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man." In attestation of this fact, he received an honorary doctorate from Yale, Harvard, Aberdeen, Lafayette,...

...who, even when in difficulties himself, never refused to give them help. Dr. Johnson wrote of him : " Let not his frailties be remembered; he was a very great man." He was buried in the churchyard of the Temple on the north side of the church. The inscription on his...