 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 σελίδες
...has endeavoured to support be determined against him." I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker,...the priest." I regretted this loose way of talking. JOHNSOW. " Sir, he knows nothing; he has made up his mind about nothing." To my great surprise he asked... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 348 σελίδες
...has endeavoured to support be determined against him." I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker,...my great surprise he asked me to dine with him on Easter Day. I never supposed that he had a dinner at his house ; for I had not then heard of any one... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 σελίδες
...has endeavoured to support be determined against him." I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker,...my great surprise he asked me to dine with him on Easter Day. I never supposed that he had a dinner at his house; for I had not then heard of any one... | |
 | 1836 - 740 σελίδες
...occasion, represents the poet as raying — prohably in some moment of ill bumour or discontent — " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat...the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest," &c. &c. mind and hahits swayed his on these questions. It was one of the happiest results of the power... | |
 | 1837 - 608 σελίδες
...shoemaker, his clothes from the tailor, and his religion from the priest. On which, Johnson observed, * Sir, he knows nothing, ' he has made up his mind about nothing.' The truth is that the operation of making up his mind at all was a task above its strength. In a constitution... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 σελίδες
...knowing. He would not keep his knowledge to himself.' I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, ' As I take my shoes from the shoemaker,...nothing ; he has made up his mind about nothing.' He owned that he thought Hawkesworth was one of his imitators, but he did not think Goldsmith was.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 σελίδες
...knowing. He would not keep his knowledge to himself.' I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, ' As I take my shoes from the shoemaker,...nothing ; he has made up his mind about nothing.' He owned that he thought Hawkesworth was one of his imitators, but he did not think Goldsmith was.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1844 - 356 σελίδες
...endeavoured to support be determined against him." I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few Jays before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and...my great surprise he asked me to dine with him on Easter Day. I never supposed that he had a dinner at his house ; for I had not then heard of. any one... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 σελίδες
...has endeavoured to support be determined against him." I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, ". As I take my shoes-, from the shoemaker, and my coat Irom the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest."1 I regretted this loose way of talking. JOHNSON.... | |
 | 1852 - 788 σελίδες
...Goldsmith was much annoyed at being lectured by one whom he knew as being so shallow, and said, ' Sir, as I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat...the tailor, so I take my religion from the Priest." The Literary Club had now been in existence several years. Johnson was most anxious at first to keep... | |
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I told him that Goldsmith had said to me a few days before, " As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest. 
