 Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings neither congenial with his studies, nor worthy of his talents. I remember him, when in his chamber in the Temple, he showed me the beginning of his Animated Nature ; it was with a sigh, such as genius draws when...  Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century - Сторінка 79автори: George Paston - 1901 - 389 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 стор.
...magnitude but his Homer, and that being a translation only consiitutes hiin an accomplished versifier. Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings, neither...worthy of his talents. I remember him when, in his chamber in the Temple, he showed me the beginning of iiis Animated Nature ; it was with a sigh, such... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 стор.
...magnitude but his Homer, and that, being a translation, only constitutes him an accomplished versifier. Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings, neither...worthy of his talents. I remember him, when in his chamber in the Temple, he shewed me the beginning of his Animated Nature ; it was with a sigh, such... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 456 стор.
...his studies, nor worthy of his talents. I remember him, when in his chamber in the Temple, he shewed me the beginning of his Animated Nature ; it was with...hard necessity diverts it from its bent to drudge for breadx and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things^ which Pidcock's show-man would have done as... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 904 стор.
...magnitude but his Homer, and that being a translation, only constitutes him an accomplished versifier. Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings neither...worthy of his talents. I remember him, when in his chamber in the Temple, he chewed me the beginning of his Animated Nature : it was with a sigh such... | |
 | William Mudford - 1812 - 662 стор.
...magnitude but his Homer, and that being a translation only constitutes him an accomplished versifier. Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings, neither...worthy of his talents. I remember him, when in his chamber in the Temple, he shewed me the beginning of his Animated Nature ; it was with a sigh, such... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 стор.
...magnitude but his Homer; and that being a translation only constitutes him an accomplished versifier. Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings neither...worthy of his talents. I remember him, when in his chamber in the Temple, he showed me the beginning of his Animated Nature ; it was with a sigh, such... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 стор.
...magnitude but his Homer; and that being a translation only constitutes him an accomplished versifier. Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings neither...worthy of his talents. I remember him, when in his chamber in the Temple, he showed me the beginning of his Animated Nature ; it was with a sigh, such... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 стор.
...magnitude but bis Homer ; and that being a translation only constitutes him an accomplished versifier. Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings neither...worthy of his talents. I remember him, when in his chamber in the Temple, he showed me the beginning of his Animated Nature; it was with a sigh, such... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 668 стор.
...for the pleasure it bestows ; obscurity never calls us back to a repetition of it distress drove him upon undertakings, neither congenial with his studies, nor worthy of his talents. (Cumberland.} Feb. 20. King Lear, as altered by Colman. King Lear = Powell : Edgar = Smith : Edmund... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 стор.
...author should have written so little from the stores of his own genius,1 and 1 [Mr Cumberland says, " Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings, neither...worthy of his talents. I remember him, when, in his chamber in the Temple, he showed me the beginningof his Animated Nature; it was with a sigh, such as... | |
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