...let me tell you this is believing a great deal." l Another of his friends 2 observed of him, that " no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." His fondness for paradox contributed to make his conversation still more absurd ; and as he had no...

...from his learning and genius. — WASHINGTON' IRVING. COMMENTS. That man is a poet. — THOMAS GRAY. No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. — DR. JOHNSON. An inspired idiot. — HORACE WALPOLE. Here lies poor Goldsmith, for shortness call'd...

...intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation.' See also ante, \. 413. ' No man,' he said of Goldsmith, ' was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had;' post, 1780, in Mr. Langton's Collection. Horace Walpole (Letters, viii. 560), who 'knew Hume personally...

...leave these tokens tried For all the stranger world beside ? CHAPTER X. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774). " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.'- — DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. " He was a friend to virtue, and in his most playful pages never forgets what...

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

...The last sentence is to be found only in the note as it appears in the third. edition. — Editor. 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 Ghithrie, an Irishman...

...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 Guthne, an Irishman...

...Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say. Chap. x. 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," ibid. The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. ibid. The potentiality of growing...

...years, when the eye can look no longer With delight on nature, or hope on human kind. — Bryant. 5. No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, nor more wise when he had. — S. Johnson on Goldsmith. 6. One is sometimes tempted to wish that the...

...a notoriously vapid and inane talker. Dr. Johnson called him an inspired idiot, and used to say, " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had" (BoswELL : Life, 1780), the memory of which peculiarity Garrick embalmed in the impromptu epitaph,...