 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...it. " Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be told, more than the papers have made publick. He died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent..." You may, if you please, put the inscription thus : 'Maria Scotorum Regina nata 15 — , a suis in exilium acta 15 — , ab hospitd neci data 15 —... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 480 pages
...Goldsmith died April 4, this year. B. 2 These books Dr. Johnson presented to the Bodleian Library. B. " Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be told,...all his resources were exhausted. Sir Joshua is of opin1on that he owed not less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ? " You may,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 448 pages
...Dr. Goldsmith died April 4 this year. 1 These books Dr. Johnson presented to the Bodleian Library. 'Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be...You may , if you please, put the inscription thus : ' ' Maria Scotorum Bcgina nata 15 — , a suis in exilium acta 15 — , ab hospitd neei data 15 —... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pages
...him. He died April 4, 1774, worn out with anxiety and debt. Dr. Johnson writing to Boswell said : " Of poor, dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be...two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ? " " Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as a historian," said Dr. Johnson,... | |
 | John Forster - 1903 - 482 pages
...Goldsmith," he wrote three months later to Boswgll, " there is little more to be told. He died of a fever, I am afraid more violent by uneasiness of mind. His...thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before?" He spoke of the loss for years, as with the tenderness of a recent grief; and in his little room hung... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 626 pages
...of sending them. The narrative is clear, lively, and short. " I have done worse to Lord Hailes than by neglecting his sheets : I have run him in debt....to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. * Dr. Goldsmith died April 4, this year. t These books Dr. Johnson presented to the Bodleian Library.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...me by asking my judgment, I am very sorry." — BOSWELL. ACE 65.J BOSWELL's LIFE OF JOHNSON. 181 " Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be told,...debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhansted. Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so... | |
 | Frank Frankfort Moore - 1910 - 530 pages
...wrote to Boswell : " Of poor dear Doctor Goldsmith there is little more to be told. He died of a fever, I am afraid more violent by uneasiness of mind. His...two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ? " Only one more incident remains to be recorded in connection with the solitary man, into whose life,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1911 - 236 pages
...death he burst into tears, and Reynolds put aside painting for the day. Johnson wrote, weeks after : " Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be told...two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ! " And again : " He raised money and squandered it by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1922 - 484 pages
...Goldsmith died April 4, this year. B. 4 These books Dr. Johnson presented to the Bodleian Library. B. " Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be told,..." You may, if you please, put the inscription thus : '''Maria Scotorum Regina nata 15 — , a suis in exilium acta 15 — , ab hospitd neci data 15 —... | |
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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... 
