| James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...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 expence. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pages
...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 expence. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...believe, by the fear of distress. His debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man." * His death was an irreparable loss to English literature. Whether we consider him as a poet, as a... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...far, und 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 ex pence. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great men. " I have just begun to... | |
| 1837 - 638 pages
...opinion that he owed not less than 2000^. Was ever poet so trusted before !" He subsequently writes, " He had raised money, and squandered it, by every artifice...frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man." It is still more deeply to be regretted that in his last hours we find no trace of those feelings which... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pages
...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 expence. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 480 pages
...distress. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expence. But let not his frailties be remembered; he was a very great man. possession of, at least, five hundred a year, fallen to his lady. All at Streatham, that are alive,... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 430 pages
...far, 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 and squandered...every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense f. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to print... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 432 pages
...far, 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 and squandered...every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense f. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to print... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a fever, exasperated , as I believe, by the hed a co nave just begun to print my Journey to the Hebrides, and am leaving the press to take another journey... | |
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