 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 - Stran 224avtor: James Boswell - 1917 - 574 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 strani
...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. 1 " I have just begun to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 572 strani
...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." ' That he was ' a very great man' is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1837 - 616 strani
...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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 strani
...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." Sir Joshua undertook to superintend his affairs until the arrival from Ireland of such of his relatives... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 602 strani
...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." Sir Joshua undertook to superintend his affairs until the arrival from Ireland of such of his relatives... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 strani
...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." Sir Joshua undertook to superintend his affairs until the arrival from Ireland of such of his relatives... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 strani
...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 fever exasperated as I believe by tne fear of distress." Sir Joshua undertook to superintend his affairs until the arrival from Ireland... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 strani
...allusion to his pecuniary involvements, yet in a tone of tenderness, Dr. Johnson writes at this time — " 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."* A a means of showing their... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1837 - 648 strani
...Goldsmith ¡' gone much farther. He died of a fever, exasperated as 1 believe by the fear of distress. Let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man.' " 138* «139 but that he was a most amiable one there can be no i exquisite prose style, the perfect... | |
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