 I hear that Goldsmith, who is a very great sloven, justifies his disregard of cleanliness and decency by quoting my practice; and I am desirous this night to show him a better example.  The Living Age - Page 1521848Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Sir," said Johnson, " I hear that Goldsmith, who is a very great sloven, justifies his disregard of cleanliness and decency by quoting my practice, and I am desirous this night to show hrm a better example." ' Goldsmith's Misc. Works, i. 62. ' Judges, v. 20. ' Psalms, xix. 2.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...Sir," said Johnson, " I hear that Goldsmith, who is a very great sloven, justifies his disregard of cleanliness and decency by quoting my practice, and I am desirous this night to show him a better example." ' Goldsmith's Misc. Works, i. 62. 1 Jitdges, v. 20. ' Psalms, xix. 2.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pages
...sir," said Johnson, " I hear that " Goldsmith, who is a very great sloven, justifies his " disregard of cleanliness and decency, by quoting my " practice, and I am desirous this night to show him " a better example." In the spring of the year 1763, Dr. Goldsmith had * See Boswell, VoL... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...sir," said Johnson, " I hear that Goldsmith, who ia; a very great sloven, justifies his disregard. of cleanliness and decency, by quoting my ; practice ; and I am desirous this night to. shew him a better example." * From this time, Johnson admitted Gold• smith, an author militant... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...sir/ said Johnson, ' I hear that Goldsmith, who is a very great sloven, justifies his disregard of cleanliness and decency by quoting my practice, and I am desirous this night to show him a better example.' " " Dr. Johnson's friendship for Mrs. Elizabeth Aston 3 commenced Rev.Mr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 570 pages
...sir,' said Johnson, ' I hear that Goldsmith, who is a very great sloven, justifies his disregard of cleanliness and decency by quoting my practice, and I am desirous this night to show him a better example.' " " Dr. Johnson's friendship for Mrs. Elizabeth Aston ' commenced Rev.Mr.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 572 pages
...Why, Sir," said he, " I hear that Goldsmith, who is a very great sloven, justifies his disregard of cleanliness and decency by quoting my practice, and I am desirous this night to show him a better example." ' — Life, vol. ip 377. In the course of that year Goldsmith formed... | |
 | 1836 - 740 pages
...sir," said the doctor, " I hear that Goldsmith, who is a very great sloven, justifies his disregard of g { 8B }^j l`5 ^ z > Mш3 i c H +q ^ IF A h l} oy to show him a better example." The whole resources of the tailor, however, could scarcely have exalted... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 792 pages
...Goldsmith, who is a verygreat sloven, j ustifles his disregard for cleanliness and decency by quoting iny practice, and I am desirous this night of showing...read as it has been by the biographers, tells as much against Johnson as against Goldsmith. The probability is that Johnson replied to a jesting inquiry... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 pages
...example as by precept, ' I hear that Goldsmith, who is a very great sloven, justifies his disregard of cleanliness and decency by quoting my practice, and I am desirous this night to show him a better example.' " From this time their intimacy increased until severed by that which... | |
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