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" 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 his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. "
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: From a Variety of Original Sources - Page 503
by Sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
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The Quarterly review, Volume 57

1836 - 564 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." ' That he was ' a very great man' is the fond expression of Johnson's tender friendship ; — he was...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...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 it by every artifice...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 that...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...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 it by every artifice...frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. ' Goldsmith, he said, referred every thing to vanity, bis virtues and his vices too were from that...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

1855 - 602 pages
...Temple. " He died," wrote Johnson, " 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. Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1846 - 608 pages
...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...frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to print my Journey to tile Hebrides, and am leaving the press to take another...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...Johncon wrote, " If much further. He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. ent than it really existed, the charge of disaffection...showing how dexterously he could repel an attack, " I have just begun to print my Journey to the Hebrides, and am leaving the press to take another journey...
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books, Volume 1

John Forster - 1848 - 734 pages
...672 LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF [BOOK f actions, after all were over, in one of his emphatic sentences. ' He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice...frailties ' be remembered : he was a very great man.' Hopeless of the scheme on which he had built so much, the alteration of his first comedy for Garrick,...
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The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...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...frailties ' be remembered : he was a very great man.' Hopeless of the scheme on which he had built so much, the alteration of his first comedy for Garrick,...
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Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...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...frailties '.be remembered : he was a very great man.' Hopeless of the scheme on which he had built so much, the alteration of his first comedy for Garrick,...
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Dr. Johnson: His Religious Life and His Death ...

Robert Armitage - 1850 - 474 pages
...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...
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