 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - 1884 - 500 Seiten
...verses are sonnets, breathing a tender feeling, and showing much picturesque fancy. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wist when he had."— Samuel Johnson. " He was a friend to virtue, and in his most playful pages never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 Seiten
...mighty unpleasing. You shine indeed, but it is by being ground. No man was more foolish [than Goldsmith] when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. On being asked what he really considered to be the value of Thrale's brewery, then about to be disposed... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - 1884 - 504 Seiten
...verses are sonnets, breathing a tender feeling, and showing much picturesque fancy. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen In his ItSuiCt, ur mure i when he had."— Samuel Johnson. " He was a friend to virtue, and in his most playful... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 612 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 578 Seiten
...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... | |
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. 
