 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
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 strani
...other. Johnson described the same transactions, after all were over, in one of his emphatic sentences. ' 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.' Hopeless of the scheme... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 strani
...materials were scanty; and after his death, he speaks of "poor, dear Dr. Goldsmith," and writes, " Let not his frailties be remembered : he was a very great man." And still more pleasing is it to find Goldsmith, the vanquished of Johnson, saying, " Johnson, to be... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 484 strani
...materials were scanty ; and after his death, he speaks of " poor, dear Dr. Goldsmith," and writes, "Let not his frailties be remembered : he was a very great man." And still more pleasing is it to find Goldsmith, the vanquished of Johnson, saying, " Johnson, to be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1852 - 800 strani
...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."9 To the merits of Goldsmith,... | |
 | 1852 - 372 strani
...such felicty of performance," says Johnson, "that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing. Let not his frailties be remembered ;—he was a very great man." But we rather say with Washington Irving, " Let them be remembered, since their tendency is to endear;... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 strani
...Goldsmith answered it was not."—DR. JOHNSON (in Boswell). " 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 failings be remembered; he was a very great man."—DR. JOHNSON to Boswell,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 342 strani
...Goldsmith answered it was not." — DR. JOHNSON (in Boswell). "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 failings be remembered ; he waa a very great man." — DR. JOHNSON to Soswell,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 strani
...Goldsmith answered it was not." —• DR. JOHNSON (in Boswell). "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 • the Chambers in the Temple which were his, and passed up the stair-case, which Johnson, and Burke,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 strani
...Goldsmith answered it was not." — DR. JOHNSON (in Boswetl). "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 ami the Chambers in the Temple which were his, and passed up the stair-case, which Johnson, and Burke,... | |
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