 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1865 - 406 pagina’s
...save the ticking of the great clock over the door. I began to address my inquiries to the porter; but he took no more notice of me than if I had been one of my own boxes, and sauntered off to fetch the remainder of them from the opposite platform. Hereupon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pagina’s
...Goldsmith, in his diverting simplicity, complained one day, in a mixed company, of Lord Cunden. ' I met him,' said he, ' at Lord Clare's house in the...forth in defence of his friend. 'Nay, gentlemen,' «aid he, 'Dr. Goldsmith is in the right. Л nobleman ought to have made up to such > man ae Goldsmith... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pagina’s
...patronage, Goldsmith complained one day, in a mixed company, of Lord Camden. "I met "him," he said, "at Lord Clare's "house in the country; and he "took no more notice of me " than if 1 had been an ordinary 'man." At this, according to Boswell, himself and the company laughed heartily;... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - 550 pagina’s
...Goldsmith, in his diverting simplicity, complained one day, in a mixed company, of Lord Camden. ' / met him,' said he, ' at Lord Clare's house in the...company having laughed heartily, Johnson stood forth in defense of his friend. 'Nay, gentlemen,' said he, ' Dr. Goldsmith is in the right. A nobleman ought... | |
 | 1878 - 496 pagina’s
..." — BOSWELL. his diverting simplicity, complained one day, in a mixed company, of Lord Camden. "I met him," said he, "at Lord Clare's house in the country,...defence of his friend. " Nay, gentlemen," said he, " Doctor Goldsmith is in the right. A nobleman ought to have made up to such a man as Goldsmith; and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1879 - 266 pagina’s
...his friends. I met him," said he, " at Lord Clare's house in the country ; THE HAUNCH OF VENISOX. 147 and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man." "The company," says Boswell, "laughed heartily at this piece of 'diverting simplicity.' " And foremost among the laughers... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pagina’s
...number of people burst out laughing when Goldsmith publicly complained that he had met Lord Camden at Lord Clare's house in the country, " and he took...more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man. " Goldsmith's claiming to be a very extraordinary person was precisely a stroke of that hnmorus self... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1880 - 336 pagina’s
...; and I never in my life saw anything so dreadful as the change that came over his face as he read. He took no more notice of me than if I had been a worm, but dug his heels into his horse's sides and galloped off under the low boughs. I thought he... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 952 pagina’s
...on the part of Lord Camden. He complained of it on his return to town at a party of his friends. ''I met him," said he, "at Lord Clare's house in the country;...than if I had been an ordinary man." " The company," says Boswell, " laughed heartily at this piece of ' diverting simplicity.' " And foremost among the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1880 - 542 pagina’s
...Goldsmith, in his diverting simplicity, complained one day, in a mixed company, of Lord Catnden. ' / met him,' said he, ' at Lord Clare's house in the country, and lie took no more notice of me titan if I had been an ordinary man' The company having laughed heartily,... | |
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I met him (said he) at Lord Clare's house' in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man. 
