 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 644 페이지
...he, " I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably voor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and...wit. So I disregarded all power and all authority." Goldsmith's poverty was never accompanied by bitterness ; but neither was it accompanied by the guardian... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 페이지
...characteristically explained : " Ah, 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." In truth there was seriousness enough in his life at this time. During his first vacation, passed,... | |
 | 1872 - 398 페이지
...period of his life, said, " I was mad and violent then. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and authority." At one time his poverty was extreme ; his shoes being so far worn into holes that his feet... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 페이지
...Adams, he •aid, ' 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...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable muter of... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 페이지
...Adams, he Said, ' Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolie. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has bcen often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 페이지
...of two of Euripides's Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the jEneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of...anecdote from Dr. Adams, and Dr. Johnson confirmed it. Bramston, in his " Alan of Taste," has the same thought : " Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 페이지
...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1875 - 530 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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,... | |
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Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolick. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter... 
