 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pages
...compliments to all the three ladies." " TO BENNET LANGTON, ESQ. AT LANGTON, NEAR SPILSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE. " DEAR SIR, " You have reason to reproach me that I...it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expence. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...three ladies." • s : ... ' " TO BENNET LANGTON, ESO. AT LANGTON, NEAR SPILSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE. " DEAK SIR, " You have reason to reproach me that I have...it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expence. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...believe, by the fear of distress. His debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man." * His death was an irreparable loss to English literature. Whether we consider him as a poet, as a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...letter so long unanswered, but I had nothing particular to say. Chambers, you find, is gone far, und poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a...it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of ex pence. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great men. " I have just begun to... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...opinion that he owed not less than 2000^. Was ever poet so trusted before !" He subsequently writes, " He had raised money, and squandered it, by every artifice...frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man." It is still more deeply to be regretted that in his last hours we find no trace of those feelings which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 480 pages
...compliments to all the.three ladies." " TO BENNET LANGTON, ESQ. AT I.ANGTON, NEAR SPILSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE. DEAR SIR, " You have reason to reproach me that I...it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expence. But let not his frailties be remembered; he was a very great man. possession of, at least,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pages
...to all the three ladies." " TO BENNET LANGTON, ESQ. AT J.ANGTON, NEAR SPILSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE. DEAIl SIR, " You have reason to reproach me that I have...it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expence. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 pages
...nothing particular to say. Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much farther. He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by...every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense f. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to print... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 432 pages
...nothing particular to say. Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much farther. He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by...every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense f. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. " I have just begun to print... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
..." My compliments to all the three ladies." LETTER 188. TO BENNET LANGTON, ESQ. At Langton. "JulyS. 1774. " DEAR SIR, — You have reason to reproach...frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man. 1 " I have just begun to print my Journey to the Hebrides, and am leaving the press to take another... | |
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Chambers, you find, is gone far, and poor Goldsmith is gone much further. He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not... 
