| 1849 - 970 páginas
...better myself.' ' 'The same evening,' adds BOSWELL, • when supping at BUCKS' a lodging, he broke hia shin by attempting to exhibit to the company how much better he could jump over a •tick than tbe puppets.' * GOLDSMITH jealous of puppets ! This even passes in absurdity BU&WELL'S... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 páginas
...can do it better myself.' " " The same evening," adds Boswell, " when supping at Burke's lodgings, he broke his shin by attempting to exhibit to the company...better he could jump over a stick than the puppets." Goldsmith jealous of puppets ! This even passes in absurdity Boswell's charge upon him of being jealous... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 páginas
...can do it better myself.' " " The same evening," adds Boswell, " when supping at Burke's lodgings, he broke his shin by attempting to exhibit to the company...better he could jump over a stick than the puppets." Goldsmith jealous of puppets ! This even passes in absurdity Bos well's charge upon him of being jealous... | |
| James Boswell - 1851 - 326 páginas
...married to Henry Bunbuiy, Esq., and the other to Colonel Gwyn.—BUSWELL. 2 He went home with Mr. Burke to supper; and broke his shin by attempting to exhibit...to the company how much better he could jump over a slick than the puppeli.— BOSWELL. 3 I am willing to hope that there mny have been some mistake as... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 páginas
...can do it better myself.' " " The same evening," adds Boswell, " when supping at Burke's lodgings, he broke his shin by attempting to exhibit to the company...better he could jump over a stick than the puppets." Goldsmith jealous of puppets ! This even passes in absurdity Boswell's charge upon him of being jealous... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 páginas
...can do it better myself." f He afterwards went home with Mr Burke to supper, and broke his shin in attempting to exhibit to the company how much better he could jump over a stick than the * Boswell's Life of Johnson, puppets. So remarkable a feature of his character was this extreme unwillingness... | |
| John Timbs - 1855 - 1026 páginas
...better myself.' " (Forster's Gnldtmilh.) Boswell relates that Goldsmith " went home with Mr. Burke to supper, and broke his shin by attempting to exhibit...James's Market, once the great western butchers' and poulterers' market, noted by Pepys in 1666 as just built by my Lord St. Albans: in a room over the... | |
| John Forster - 1855 - 528 páginas
...believe that he was seriously jealous of the so famous fantoccini ! " He went home with " Mr. Burke to supper, and broke his shin by attempting to exhibit...better he could jump over a stick than " the puppets." The anecdote is too pleasant to be gravely objected to ; but might he not only mean that the puppets... | |
| John Timbs - 1855 - 818 páginas
...(Forster's Gnldtmith.) Boswell relate* that Goldsmith " went home with Mr. Burke to supper, and broke hi» shin by attempting to exhibit to the company how much...jump over a stick than the puppets." On the west is Nome-street, leading to St. James's Market, once the great western butchers' and poulterers' market,... | |
| James Boswell - 1858 - 482 páginas
...Colonel Gwyn. 2 He went home with Mr. Burke to supper ; and broke his shin hy attempting to exhibit lo the company how much better he could jump over a stick than the puppets. the history of Goldsmith's situation and Johnson's friendly interference, when this novel was sold.1... | |
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