 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 644 pages
...he, " I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably voor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and...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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...characteristically explained : " Ah, 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 truth there was seriousness enough in his life at this time. During his first vacation, passed,... | |
 | 1872 - 398 pages
...period of his life, said, " I was mad and violent then. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and authority." At one time his poverty was extreme ; his shoes being so far worn into holes that his feet... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...Adams, he •aid, ' 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 muter of... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...Adams, he Said, ' Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolie. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way...pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has bcen often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...College," 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...wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority." We have all heard laughter with no true ring of fun in it, and seen wild revelry which had its source... | |
 | John Forster - 1875 - 524 pages
...was mad and violent. It ' was bitterness that 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.' But there was a written sentence of Johnson's more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
 | John Forster - 1875 - 530 pages
...was mad and violent. It ' was bitterness that 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.' But there was a written sentence of Johnson's more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that 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." But there was a written sentence of Johnson more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
 | 1876 - 576 pages
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that 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." But there was a written sentence of Johnson more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
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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... 
