 I could say nothing but that I had a brother there, a clergyman, that stood in need of help; as for myself, I have no dependence on the promises of great men; I look to the booksellers for support, they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake...  The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany - Stran 2061787Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 strani
...men; I look to the booksellers for support, they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.' Thus did this idiot, in the affairs...fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to assist him. Other offers of a like kind he either rejected or failed to improve, contenting himself... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 strani
...men, I look to the booksellers for support, they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.' Thus did this idiot in the affairs...fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to assist him." This anecdote proves the independence of Goldsmith's character, and the strength cf his... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 strani
...am not inclined to forsake them for others." " Thus," said Sir John Hawkins, in his coarse manner, " did this idiot in the affairs of the world trifle...fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to assist him." Hawkins had neither the feeling nor sense to see or admire that honest independence of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 strani
...my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.' " " Thus," continues Sir John, " did this idiot in the affairs of the world trifle...fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to assist him." We cannot join with Sir John in his worldly sneer at the conduct of Goldsmith on this... | |
 | 1865 - 342 strani
...; I look to the booksellers for support, they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.' Thus did this idiot, in the affairs...fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to assist him. Other offers of a like kind he either rejected or failed to improve, contenting himself... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 518 strani
...; I look to the booksellers for support, they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.' Thus did this idiot in the affairs...fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to assist him." This anecdote proves the independence of Goldsmith's character, and the strength of his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 414 strani
...my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.' " " Thus," continues Sir John, " did this idiot in the affairs of the world trifle with his fortunes, and pat back the hand that was held out to assist him.' We cannot join with Sir John in his worldly sneer... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 404 strani
...friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others." " Thus," continues Sir John Hawkins, " did this idiot, in the affairs of the world, trifle...fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to assist him." We can by no means admit the ungracious word idiot ; it is disgraceful to the man who... | |
 | John Forster - 1877 - 526 strani
...friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for "'others.' Thus," adds the teller of the anecdote, "did this " idiot in the affairs of the world trifle with his fortunes, and put '' 1 ack the hand that was held out to assist him ! Other offers of • :i like kind he either rejected... | |
 | J. W. Appleton - 1879 - 216 strani
...best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others." " Thus," says Sir John Hawkins, " did this idiot in the affairs of the world trifle...fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to assist him." He might have served himself and his brother at the same time all the more effectually.... | |
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