 | Sydney Castle Roberts - Authors, English - 1919 - 210 pages
...Boswell says, "a more than common share of that hurry of ideas which we often find in his countrymen." " Goldsmith told us, that he was now busy in writing a natural history, and... had taken lodgings, at a farmer's house, near to the six milestone, on the Edgeware road, and had carried... | |
 | James Hall Pitman - 1924 - 212 pages
...his hand, andt 1 Prior z. 342 ff. sent him away.' x Boswell reports that on Friday, April 10, 1772, Goldsmith told us, that he was now busy in writing...farmer's house, near to the six mile-stone, on the Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the... | |
 | James Hall Pitman - English language - 1924 - 204 pages
...Doctor put a guinea in his hand, and sent him away.' 1 Boswell reports that on Friday, April 10, 1772, Goldsmith told us, that he was now busy in writing...farmer's house, near to the six mile-stone, on the Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1998 - 1540 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...taken lodgings, at a farmer's house, near to the six mile-atone, on the Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two retumed post-chaises. He said,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 2007 - 298 pages
...concealed, but it is all in perfect innocence.' " 102.28 the most illustrious literary men of his time,* * "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 Edgeware Road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He... | |
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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.... 
