 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 1154 pages
...sir ! " replied he, " I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I icas miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my...wit. So I disregarded all power and all authority." Goldsmith's poverty was never accompanied by bitterness ; but neither was it accompanied by the guardian... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 416 pages
...and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. / -was miserably poor, attd I tlwuglii to fight my way by my literature and my wit. So I disregarded all power and all authority." Goldsmith's poverty was never accompanied by bitterness; but neither was it accompanied by the guardian... | |
 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 476 pages
...Johnson, on being told this, " I was mad and violent. It was bitterness, which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." In the year previous to his death (1783), in a conversation with Mr. Seward, he says, "I myself was... | |
 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 562 pages
...Johnson, on being told this, " I was mad and violent. It was bitterness, which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority." In the year previous to his death (1783), in a conversation with Mr. Seward, he says, " I myself was... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...Ah, sir !" replied he, " I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. / was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit. So I disregarded all power and all authority." Goldsmith's poverty was never accompanied by bitterness; but neither was it accompanied by the guardian... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1852 - 584 pages
...fallacious. Of this same period he declared himself, that " it was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority." It is further related by one of his early associates, that " he was generally scen lounging at the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1852 - 610 pages
...fallacious. Of this same period he declared himself, that " it was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so 1 disregarded all power and all authority. It is further related by one of his early associates, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 404 pages
...Ah, sir !" replied he, " I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. / was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit. So I disregarded all power and all authority." Goldsmith's poverty was never accompanied by bitterness ; but neither was it accompanied by the guardian... | |
 | 1859 - 890 pages
...mirth. He said of himself, in after-life, when speaking of this period, "Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent; I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and authority." But in later life the same proud spirit appeared. Any error or exaggeration of a conversation,... | |
 | George Roberson, John Richard Green - Oxford (England) - 1859 - 146 pages
...Sir, I was mad and violent — it was bitterness they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit, so I disregarded all power and all authority." No. III. — NEW SERIES. THERE are certain types which Nature seems never tired of repeating — if... | |
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But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of appearances, and how little any of us know of the real internal state even of those whom we see most frequently; for the truth is, that he was then depressed by poverty, and irritated by disease. When I mentioned... 
