 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...differ as to some point : I am only saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid." Goldsmith told us, that he was now busy in writing...farmer's house, near to the six mile-stone, on the Edgeware-road,1 and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...career, f I have been many a time in the chambers in the * " Goldsmith told us that he was now busy tn writing a Natural History; and, that he might have...had taken lodgings at a farmer's house, near to the six-mile stone in the Edgware Road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...be to the other what Sappho boasts she was to her lo»er, and uniformly agree in every particular ; Goldsmith told us, that he was now busy in writing a, Natural History ; l and, that he might have full leisure for it, he had taken lodgings at a farmer's house, near to... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 494 pages
...differ as to some point ; I am only saying that I could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid." Goldsmith told us, that he was now busy in writing a Natural History ;2 and, that he might have full leisure for it, he had taken lodgings at a farmer's house, near to... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...differ as to some point : I am only saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid."* Goldsmith told us that he was now busy in writing...have full leisure for it, he had taken lodgings at • Mr. Boswell's nntc here being rather short, as taken at the time (with a view perhaps to future... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 498 pages
...tracked and his substance wasted by crowds of hungry beggars and lazy dependants. If they came 1 " Goldsmith told us that he was now busy in writing...had taken lodgings at a. farmer's house, near to the six-mile stone in the Edgware Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1896 - 510 pages
...substance wasted by crowds of hungry beggars and lazy dependants. If they came 1 " Goldsmith told ns that he was now busy in writing a Natural History...had taken lodgings at a farmer's house, near to the six-mile stone in the Edgware Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 824 pages
...for it, he had taken lodgings at a farmer's house, near to the six-mile stone in the Edgware Road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises....he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd chnr.icter, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children ; he was... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 828 pages
...dissipation. It must be remembered that he owed £2000 when he died. "Was ever poet," Johnson asked. * "Goldsmith told us that he was now busy in writing a Natural Historr and that he might have full leisure for it, he had taken lodgings at a farmer house, near to... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...differ as to some point : I am only saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid."121 " Mr Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country..." Mr Strahan, let me have five guineas on account, Edgeware Road,115 and had carried down his I72 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON '73 books in two returned... | |
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Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman.... 
