 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - English fiction - 1858 - 426 pages
..." 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...TOSfcrfft irÍTtt. OT'Ti p.fu.Tj\c fpvms, LLtTptw xaf" 1 » f J 7 a KAuieTf TTOIIJT^V, IfTOplttOV, " " SAX. JOIINSOH." BOSWELL TO JOHNSON. " Edinburgh. Aug. 30. 1774. " You bave given me an inscription... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists, English - 1862 - 422 pages
...Goldsmith is gone much 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 of the poet, Washington Irving adds : " I was abroad at the time... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...distress. 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. * Goldsmith,' he said, « referred every thing to vanity: his virtues, and his vices too, were from... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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."* To the merits of Goldsmith, as a writer, the testimony of critics almost innumerable might be adduced.... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...distress. He had raised monev ami squandered it by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. — 414. HotrwELL is a market-town, neither very small nor mean. The spring called Winifred's Well... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...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."* To the merits of Goldsmith, as a writer, the testimony of critics ilmost innumerable might be adduced.... | |
 | 1865 - 342 pages
...distress. 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. ' Goldsmith,' he said, ' referred every thing to vanity: his virtues, and his vices too, were from... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English dramas - 1869 - 774 pages
...distress. 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." When Goldsmith died he was forty-five years and five months old. His body was buried, on the 9th of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...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."' To the merits of Goldsmith, as a writer, the testimony of critics almost innumerable might be adduced.... | |
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Please to make my most respectful compliments to all the ladies, and remember me to young George and his sisters. I reckon George begins to show a pair of heels. " Do not be sullen now, but let me find a letter when I come back. "I am, dear Sir, " Your... 
