| Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 páginas
...and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. / was miserably poor, and I tfiought to fight my way by my literature and my wit. So I disregarded all power and all authority." Goldsmith's poverty was never accompanied by bitterness ; but neither was it accompanied by the guardian... | |
| Washington Irving - 1868 - 486 páginas
...sir ! " replied he, " I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. Twos miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my...wit. So I disregarded all power and all authority." Goldsmith's poverty was never accompanied by bitterness ; but neither was it accompanied by the guardian... | |
| 1871 - 558 páginas
...surrounding world forcibly reminds us of Knox: — " It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit, so I disregarded all power and all authority." Why, he even laughed at the editors of our popular manuals of physiology, and his laughter was long... | |
| 1870 - 846 páginas
...surrounding world forcibly reminds us of Knox: — " It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit, so I disregarded all power and all authority." Why, he even laughed at the editors of our popular manuals of physiology, and his laughter was long... | |
| Washington Irving - 1870 - 644 páginas
...he, " I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably voor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and...wit. So I disregarded all power and all authority." Goldsmith's poverty was never accompanied by bitterness ; but neither was it accompanied by the guardian... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 páginas
...characteristically explained : " Ah, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority." In truth there was seriousness enough in his life at this time. During his first vacation, passed,... | |
| 1872 - 398 páginas
...period of his life, said, " I was mad and violent then. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and authority." At one time his poverty was extreme ; his shoes being so far worn into holes that his feet... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 páginas
...Adams, he •aid, ' Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable muter of... | |
| James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 páginas
...Adams, he Said, ' Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolie. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has bcen often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 602 páginas
...of two of Euripides's Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the jEneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of...anecdote from Dr. Adams, and Dr. Johnson confirmed it. Bramston, in his " Alan of Taste," has the same thought : " Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the... | |
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