 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1884 - 722 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1885 - 490 pages
...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 pages
..."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 - Authors, English - 1887 - 598 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...irritability of his constitution, at all times, an impatience and hurry when he either read or \\rote.' A certain apprehension, arising from novelty, made...Adams, and Dr. Johnson confirmed it. Bramston, in his " Man of Taste," has the same thought : " Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the worst." But I have... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - Anecdotes - 1888 - 708 pages
..."I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and 1 thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit. So I disregarded all power and all authority." — Washington Irving. 1993. EXCITEMENT, Religious. A somewhat unlettered but celebrated evangelist... | |
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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... 
