 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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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