 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1876 - 56 pages
...language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness. . . . Let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man.' Mr. Forster says : ' He worthily did the work that was in him to do ; proved himself in his garret... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1876 - 86 pages
...language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness. . . . Let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man.' Mr. Forster says : ' He worthily did the work that was in him to do ; proved himself in his garret... | |
 | William Black - 1879 - 180 pages
...— is not anxious to know what he did with his guineas, or whether the milkman •was ever paid. " He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. BUT LET NOT JUS FRAILTIES BE REMEMBERED t HE WAS A VERY GREAT MAN." This is Johnson's wise summing up ; and with... | |
 | 1879 - 978 pages
...Johnson, referring to the two thousand pounds which Goldsmith died owing ; and he says elsewhere, " He had raised money and squandered it by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense." That is the truth ; and if he was not the less a genius, and not the less a most lovable man, 1 Forms... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pages
...— is not anxious to know what he did with his guineas, or whether the milkman was ever paid. ' ' He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice...FRAILTIES BE REMEMBERED : HE WAS A VERY GREAT MAN." This is Johnson's wise summing up ; and with it we may here take leave of gentle Goldsmith. SIR WALTER... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1880 - 1106 pages
...up the picture of the life of this gentle poet is ready to echo Johnson's estimate of his friend : " He had raised money and squandered it by every artifice...expense. But let not his frailties be remembered; lie was a very great man." Goldsmith was undoubtedly the unwitting author of many of his misfortunes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 780 pages
...is gone much farther. He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by " the fear of distress. He raised money and squandered it by every artifice of...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 gth of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 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...acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his failings be remembered ; he was a very great man." — Dr. JOHNSON to BosvieU, July 5, 1774. passed... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1881 - 506 pages
...follies, we feel inclined to exclaim in the noble and merciful language of Johnson about Goldsmith, ' But let not his frailties be remembered. He was a very great man.' CHEAP LITERATURE: CONSTABLE, CHAMBERS, KNIGHT, CASSELL. On a certain day in May, 1825 (so we read in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress He had raised money and squandered it, liy every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his failings be remembered ; be was a very great man." — Dr. JOHNSON to Bosuxll, July 6/A, 1774. different... | |
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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. 
