 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.' . Of Dr. Goldsmith he said,«No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.' He said Goldsmith's blundering speech to Lord Shelburne, which has been so often mentioned, and which... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...Johnson was present, and appeared to enjoy it much. — Jjoswell.]- — Langton. OF Dr. Goldsmith Johnson said, " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." IMLAC, in Rasselas, I spelt with ac at the end, because it i* less like English, which should always... | |
 | 1865 - 342 pages
...made up to such a man as Goldsmith; and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.' Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, 'No man was more foolish...not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.' He said Goldsmith's blundering speech to Lord Shelburne, which has been so often mentioned, and which... | |
 | Margaret T. Downing - English poetry - 1867 - 394 pages
...were often overlooked. He was almost ever a loser in conversation, and Johnson remarked of him, '' no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had," and he further observes " whatever he composed he did it better than any other man could, and whether... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pages
...so much the more likely to come, from the inclination with which he takes up the study. GOLDSMITH. No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in hi3 hand, or more wise when he had. CONDESCENSION. There is nothing more likely to betray a man into... | |
 | Augustus Frederick Westmacott - 1868 - 98 pages
...the most congenial accompaniment." 5. No. 6. What all must be before they enter the Army. LIII. A. " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, nor more wise when he had." B. " Nihil non tetigit." 1. He lifts his horn, he snuffs the air, He paws... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1899 - 312 pages
...evidence enough of his merits as a writer, and we may wisely close with the remark of Dr. Johnson: " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wiee when he had." J. O'B. (1st Rhet.) "The Life of Daniel Webster." O.MK years ago a book entitled... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...written, and that well deserves to be recorded."' ' Of a certain noble lord he said, " Respect him you could not; for he had -no mind of his own. Love...not; for that which you, could do with him, every one elec could."' 'Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand,... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...for making a mouarchy of "'what should be a republic.1" (m. 300). That is surely very happily said. "man was more foolish when he "had not a pen in his hand, or "more wise when he had," we must yet admit it with due I77°' allowance. Walpole said 'Et'4Z- much the same thing of Hume, whose... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...written, and that well deserves to be recorded.'" " Of a certain noble Lord, he said, 'Respect him, you could not ; for he had no mind of his own. Love...He told in his lively manner the following literary anecdote: ' Green and Guthrie, an Irishman and a Scotchman, undertook a translation of Duhalde's history... | |
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. 
