 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 페이지
...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 페이지
...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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 페이지
...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,... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 페이지
...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - 444 페이지
...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 wise when he had." — Samuel Johnson. " He was a friend to virtue, and in his most playful pages never forgets what is... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1878 - 214 페이지
...a voyager of time f Why does the poet say heedful way ? CHAPTER IX. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1728-1774. " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen In hishand, or more wise when he had." — Samuel Johnson. " He was a friend to virtue, and in his most... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1879 - 448 페이지
...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 wise when he had."— Samuel JoAnton. " He was a Mend to virtue, and In his most playful pages never forgets what is due... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 페이지
...with the heedless garrulity of its author. Hence Walpole called him an 'inspired idiot,' and Johnson said, 'no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.' This was the special wrong he suffered, — that in his lifetime he was never fully appreciated by... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 페이지
...of it whenever he attempted to talk. This drew from Johnson the snug saying, that " no man -,vimorc foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." The Good-Nut ure.d Man was brought out in January, 176S, at Coveiit-irr.ri'. theatre, and had fair... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1881 - 334 페이지
...his couch About him, anJ lies down to pleasant dreams." CHAPTER IX. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1728—1774. "No man was more foolish when he 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... | |
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. 
