 I could say nothing but that I had a brother there, a clergyman, that stood in need of help: as for myself, I have no dependence on the promises of great men: I look to the booksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake...  Works - Pàgina 167per Washington Irving - 1851Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1837 - 536 pàgines
...bocksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others." Thus did this idiot in the affairs of the world trifle...put back the hand that was held out to assist him ! Other offers of a like kind he either rejected or failed to improve, contenting himself with the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pàgines
...booksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others." — ( 6 triflo with his fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to assist him!" — In a worldly... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pàgines
...booksellers for support, they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.' Thus did this idiot, in the affairs of the world, trifle...put back the hand that was held out to assist him. Other offers of a like kind he either rejected or failed to improve, contenting himself with the patronage... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pàgines
...booksellers for support, they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.' Thus did this idiot, in the affairs of the world, trifle...put back the hand that was held out to assist him. Other offers of a like kind he either rejected or failed to improve, contenting himself with the patronage... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pàgines
...friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others." — "Thus," continues Sir John, "did .Ihis fast behind, n happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where Crcsars once — In a worldly point of view, the conduct of Goldsmith on this occasion was undoubtedly absurd; but... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pàgines
...booksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others."— " Thus," continues Sir John, "did this idiot in the...fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out in assist him!" — In a worldly point of view, the conduct of Goldsmith on this occasion was undoubtedly... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 pàgines
...and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.' Thus," adds the brutal knight, " did this idict in the affairs of the world trifle with his fortunes,...put back the hand that was held out to assist him ! " Goldsmith having been, on an after occasion, subjected to a similar charge of idiotcy in the affairs... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pàgines
...support ; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others." Thus adds Hawkins, did this idiot', in the affairs of the world, trifle...put. back the hand that was held out to assist him! Other offers of a like kind he either rejected or failed to improve, contenting himself with the patronage... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pàgines
...friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others." — " Thus," continues Sir John, " did ÜÚ idiot in the affairs of the world trifle with his...fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to Most him!" — In a worldly point of view, the endue* of Goldsmith on this occasion was undispositions... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pàgines
...and I am not inclined to ' " forsake them for others." Thus,' adds the teller of the anecdote, ' thus did this idiot in the affairs of the world, ' trifle...put back the hand that was ' held out to assist him ! Other offers of a like kind he ' either rejected or failed to improve : contenting himself ' with... | |
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