 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...Goldsmith there is little to be told, more than the papers have made public. He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His...two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ? " I am, dear Sir, " Your most affectionate servant, " SAM. JOHNSON." Oliver Goldsmith had died on... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...conversations that are to come. We shall miss poor Goldy much. Mark these two sentences of Johnson's letter: " Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than...thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before?" There went much feeling to the writing of these last six words. " TO BENNET LANGTON, ESQ., AT LANGTON,... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...conversations that are to come. We shall miss poor Goldy much. Mark these two sentences of Johnson's letter : " Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds. Was e1'cr poet so trusted before?" There went much feeling to the writing of these last six words. " TO... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1877 - 526 pages
...more to be told. He " died of a fever, I am afraid more violent by uneasiness of " mind. His debt* began to be heavy, and all his resources were " exhausted....two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before 1" He spoke of the loss for years, as with the tenderness of a recent grief; and in his little room... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1877 - 528 pages
...little more to be told. He " died of a fever, I am afraid more violent by uneasiness of " mind. Hia debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were " exhausted. Sir Joshua is of opinion that ho owed not less than " two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ?" He spoke of the loss... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 374 pages
...into his grave when he was but forty-five years old. ' He died of a fever,' wrote Johnson, ' made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His...two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ? ' One, certainly, of his resources had not been exhausted. His last illness attacked him as he was... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 386 pages
...into his grave when he was but forty-five years old. ' He died of a fever,' wrote Johnson, ' made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His...two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ? ' One, certainly, of his resources had not been exhausted. His last illness attacked him as he was... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...Goldsmith there is little to be told, more than the papers have made public. He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His...thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before?" But if the greatest grief at the sudden and premature death of Goldsmith would seem to have been shown... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...Goldsmith there is little to be told more than the papers have made public. He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His...to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. . . . Was ever poet so trusted before?' His remains were interred in the Temple burying ground, and... | |
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Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be told, more than the papers have made public. He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. Sir Joshua is of... 
