...noble qualities were often overlooked. He was almost ever a loser in conversation, and Johnson remarked of him, '' no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had," and he further observes " whatever he composed he did it better than any other man could, and whether...

...so much the more likely to come, from the inclination with which he takes up the study. GOLDSMITH. No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in hi3 hand, or more wise when he had. CONDESCENSION. There is nothing more likely to betray a man into...

...the most congenial accompaniment." 5. No. 6. What all must be before they enter the Army. LIII. A. " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, nor more wise when he had." B. " Nihil non tetigit." 1. He lifts his horn, he snuffs the air, He paws...

...evidence enough of his merits as a writer, and we may wisely close with the remark of Dr. Johnson: " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wiee when he had." J. O'B. (1st Rhet.) "The Life of Daniel Webster." O.MK years ago a book entitled...

...for making a mouarchy of "'what should be a republic.1" (m. 300). That is surely very happily said. "man was more foolish when he "had not a pen in his hand, or "more wise when he had," we must yet admit it with due I77°' allowance. Walpole said 'Et'4Z- much the same thing of Hume, whose...

...not ; for that which you could do with him, every one else could.' " " Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, ' No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.' " " He told in his lively manner the following literary anecdote: ' Green and Guthrie, an Irishman...

...perhaps the most portable saying the Doctor ever made about poor Goldsmith is the well-known epigram, " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise u'licn he had." Friday, April loth : MR. SCOTT'S Chambers. Garrick's fame was spoken of, and his assuming...

...tender feeling, and showing much picturesque fancy. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. " No man was more foolish when be had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had."—Samuel Johnson. " He was a friend to virtue, and in his most playful pages never forgets what...

...generally made a botch of it whenever he attempted to talk. This drew from Johnson the snug saying, that " no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." The Good-Natnred Man was brought out in January, 1768, at Covent-garden theatre, and had fair success,...

...therefore in substance quite true; and Dr. Johnson spoke to the same effect when he observed of him, " That no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, nor more wise when he had." Thackeray, in his lectures on English Humourists, thus closes his notice...