| ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 páginas
...College," he said, " 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...wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority." We have all heard laughter with no true ring of fun in it, and seen wild revelry which had its source... | |
| Walter Scott - 1879 - 652 páginas
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| John Forster - 1875 - 530 páginas
...was mad and violent. It ' was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably ' poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my '...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' But there was a written sentence of Johnson's more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
| John Forster - 1875 - 524 páginas
...was mad and violent. It ' was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably ' poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my '...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' But there was a written sentence of Johnson's more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
| 1876 - 606 páginas
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
| John Forster - 1876 - 498 páginas
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson's more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
| 1876 - 844 páginas
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
| 1876 - 576 páginas
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
| John Forster - 1876 - 504 páginas
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that thev mistook for frolie. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all anthority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson's more nobly applicable both to Swift and to... | |
| 1877 - 814 páginas
...observed to Boswell, "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...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." It was his poverty, thus alluded to, that, about 1T30, threw him into that •tate of hypochondriacism,... | |
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