 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 230 σελίδες
...university experience : " Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." Swift learnt another and a more profitable lesson in these years. It is indicated in 4 In the Short... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 σελίδες
...and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I tfiauglu 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 530 σελίδες
...Pembroke, he answered, " Ah ! Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...; so I disregarded all power, and all authority." Even such a rebel against college discipline Swift appears to have been, under similar circumstances... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 σελίδες
...Dr. Adams, he said, "Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 722 σελίδες
...Adams, he said, " Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me, " Thq pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 σελίδες
...I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. 1 was miserably poor, and 1 thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority." Visiting Oxford three-and-twenty years after he had left it, he waited on the master of his old college,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 σελίδες
...depressed by poverty, and irritated by disease. When I mentioned to him this account as given me by Ur. Adams, he said, " Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent....vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 σελίδες
..."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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 σελίδες
...went up." Tyerman's Whilefield, \. 20. they Dr. Adams. nek-! ' litefa they mistook for frolick'.JI was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority2.' The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me, 'The pleasure he took in vexing the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 σελίδες
...of two of Euripides's Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the jEneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of...anecdote from Dr. Adams, and Dr. Johnson confirmed it. Bramston, in his " Man of Taste," has the same thought : " Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the... | |
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Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolick. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter... 
