 Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings neither congenial with his studies, nor worthy of his talents. I remember him, when in his chamber in the Temple, he showed me the beginning of his Animated Nature; it was with a sigh, such as genius draws when...  The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott - Pagina 258door Walter Scott - 1834Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 pagina’s
...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 a turkey from a goose, but when lie saw it on the table." — CUMBERLAND'S Memoirs. J "These youthful follies, like the fermentation... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 880 pagina’s
...prosperous Irish gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filhy'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 Memoir*. J "These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 pagina’s
...gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. t " Poor fellow I He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table." — CUMBERLAND'S Memoirs. } " These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 pagina’s
...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."— CCMRERLANP'S Memoirs. J " These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 pagina’s
...chambers in the 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...talk of birds, and 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pagina’s
...that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. t " I'oor follow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mnle, nor n turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table." — CUMBERLAND'S Mtmoin. t " These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pagina’s
...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." — CUMRERLAND'S Memoirs. t " These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 pagina’s
...prosperous Irish gentleman," it is not unreasonable to wish that he had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill. 3 " Poor fellow ! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a \ pawnbroker's shop. He wrote ballads, they say, for the street-singers, who paid him a crown for a... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 474 pagina’s
...Then from Edinburgh he felt that he ought to hear the famous professors of Leyden and Paris, and wrote turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table." — CDMBERLAND'S Memoirs. 1 " These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 380 pagina’s
...was with a sigh, such as genius draws when hard necessity diverts it from its of Bnimate& nature" 301 bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds, and 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... | |
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