 Temple, he showed me the beginning of his 'Animated Nature;' it was with a sigh, such as genius draws, when hard necessity diverts it from its bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds, and beasts, and' creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would...  Memoirs of Richard Cumberland - Page 348by Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showmen would have done as well. Poor fellow! he hardly knew...saw it on the table. But publishers hate poetry, and Paternoster Row is not Parnassus. Even the mighty Doctor Hill, who was not a very delicate reader,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...unworthy of his genius : as genius draws when hard necessity diverts it from its bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts, and creeping things,...•well. Poor fellow, he hardly knew an ass from a rnule, nor a turkey from a goose, but when he saw it upon the table. But publishers hate poetry, and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 360 pages
...not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. 1 " Poor fellow ! He hardly kuew an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table."— CUMBERLAND'S Memoirs. with one patron, a great deal of time at the publichouse.1 Tired of this life,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...prosperous Irish gentleman', it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. 1 ' Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor...from a goose, but when he saw it on the table.'— CUMBERLAND'S Memoirs. After college, he hung about his mother's house, and lived for some years the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...beasts, and creeping things, which Pidock's showman would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly knows an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from a goose, but when he sees it on the table." Others of Goldsmith's friends entertained similar ideas with respect to his... | |
 | 1865 - 342 pages
...bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showmen would have done as well. Poor fellow! he hardly knew...saw it on the table. But publishers hate poetry, and Paternoster Row is not Parnassus. Even the mighty Doctor Hill, who was not a very delicate reader,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 pages
...prosperous Irish gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. ** "Poor fellow! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor...turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table." — CUMBERLAND'S Memoirs. came home ruefully, and the good folks there killed their calf — it was... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...prosperous Irish gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. t " Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor...from a. goose, but when he saw it on the table."— CUMBERLAND'S Mcmoirs. and that, a year with one patron, a great deal of time at the publichouse.* Tired... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...prosperous Irish gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. t " Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor...turkey from a. goose, but when he saw it on the table." — CUMBERLAND'S Memoirs. and that, a year with one patron, a great deal of time at the publichouse.*... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1870 - 360 pages
...prosperous Irish gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby' s bill. 1 " Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table.'7— CUMBEBLA.TO'S Memoirs. with one patron, a great deal of time at the publichouse.1 Tired... | |
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