 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 by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.  Works - Сторінка 134автори: Washington Irving - 1851Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | John Forster - 1876 - 498 стор.
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson's more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
 | John Forster - 1876 - 504 стор.
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that thev mistook for frolie. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all anthority." But there was a written sentence of Johnson's more nobly applicable both to Swift and to... | |
 | 1877 - 814 стор.
...observed to Boswell, "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...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." It was his poverty, thus alluded to, that, about 1T30, threw him into that •tate of hypochondriacism,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 376 стор.
...a gay and frolicsome fellow ; but ' it was bitterness,' he said, ' that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit.' ' They all feared him, however,' as one of them nearly fifty years afterwards admitted. He used to... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 стор.
...frolicsome fellow ; but ' it was bitterness,' he said, ' that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably pobr, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit.' ' They all feared him, however,' as one of them nearly fifty years afterwards admitted. He used to... | |
 | 1880 - 556 стор.
...fellow," he replied, "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...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." Though a hearty supporter of authority in principle, Johnson was distinguished through life by the... | |
 | John Wilson (reviewer.) - 1881 - 482 стор.
...sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness that they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.' But there was a written sentence of Johnson more nobly applicable both to Swift and to himself, when,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 стор.
...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...accompanied by the guardian pride which kept Johnson from fulling into the degrading shifts of poverty. Goldsmith had an unfortunate facility at borrowing, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 714 стор.
...was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. / was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my 'мау by my literature and my wit. So I disregarded all...accompanied by the guardian pride which kept Johnson Irom falling into the degrading shifts of poverty. Goldsmith had an unfortunate facility at borrowing,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 236 стор.
...university experience : " 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...wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority." Swift learnt another and a more profitable lesson in these years. It is indicated in 4 In the Short... | |
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