...neither more nor less than the truth when he remarked that ' no man was more foolish than Goldsmith, when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had one.' CONTENTS. POEMS— The Traveller, . .8 The Deserted Village, .... 15 The Captivity, ..... 27...

...thousand pounds." Goldsmith says Garrick writes like an angel, but talks like poor Poll ; and JOHNSON said of him : " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." Report has it that Carlyle and our own poet laureate, would sit for an hour together without exchanging...

...could not; for that which you could do with him every one else could.' " Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, ' No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.' " He told, in his lively manner, the following literary anecSir, you were saying somewhat about" —...

...let me tell you this is believing a great deal." l Another of his friends 2 observed of him, that " no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." His fondness for paradox contributed to make his conversation still more absurd ; and as he had no...

...let me tell you this is believing a great deal." * Another of his friends 2 observed of him, that " no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." His fondness for paradox contributed to make his conversation still more absurd ; and as he had no...

...up in the air and huzza with," accompanying his words with a boisterous hooray ! DR. GOLDSMITH. "VTO man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." This reminds us of the epigrammatic jest about King James I. , " that he never said a foolish thing...

...verses are sonnets, breathing a tender feeling, and showing much picturesque fancy. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wist when he had."— Samuel Johnson. " He was a friend to virtue, and in his most playful pages never...

...mighty unpleasing. You shine indeed, but it is by being ground. No man was more foolish [than Goldsmith] when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. On being asked what he really considered to be the value of Thrale's brewery, then about to be disposed...

...verses are sonnets, breathing a tender feeling, and showing much picturesque fancy. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen In his ItSuiCt, ur mure i when he had."— Samuel Johnson. " He was a friend to virtue, and in his most playful...

...from his learning and genius. — WASHINGTON IRVING. COMMENTS. That man is a poet. — THOMAS GRAY. No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. — DR. JOHNSON. An inspired idiot. — HORACE WALPOLE. Here lies poor Goldsmith, for shortness call'd...