 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...written, and that well deserves to be recorded.' " Of a certain noble lord », he said, ' Respect him you could not; for he had no mind of his own. Love...told, in his lively manner, the following literary anecdote: — ' Green ' and Guthrie, an Irishman and a Scotchman, undertook a translation of Duhalde's... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, Irish - 1837 - 606 pages
...this seems one of those phrases used not for their truth or accuracy, but for antithetic effect, " no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." " It is amazing how little Goldsmith knows ; he seldom comes where he is not more ignorant than any... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 444 pages
...argued alone. The same circumstance was noticed by Johnson, and gave rise to the observation, « that no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.» •• If it must be admitted that Goldsmith had no talent for oral display, it will not be disputed... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...this seems .one of those phrases used not for their truth or accuracy, but for antithetic effect, " no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." " It is amazing how little Goldsmith knows ; he seldom comes where he is not more ignorant than any... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...this seems one of those phrases used not for their truth or accuracy, but for antithetic effect, " no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." " It is amazing how little Goldsmith knows; he seldom comes where he is not more ignorant than any... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 604 pages
...this seems one of those phrases used not for their truth or accuracy, but for antithetic effect, " no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." " It is amazing how little Goldsmith knows ; he seldom comes where he is not more ignorant than any... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...however, never amount to wisdom. The word wise in the latter part of Johnson's antithesis — ' nobody was more foolish when he had not a pen in 'his hand, or more wise when he had one,' must be taken in a humble sense. Goldsmith did not sink his foundations deep enough to be an... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...him to say he liked gravy ; and Dr. Johnson may close the list with the characteristic remark that no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, nor more wise when he had. That Goldsmith was not a brilliant converser may be admitted without any... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...when alone.' Waipole, too severely, called him ' an inspired idiot :' and Dr. Johnson observed, ' That no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, nor more wise when he had.' The strong features of benevolence and humanity that distinguished the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...when alone.' Waipole, too severely, called him ' an inspired idiot :' and Dr. Johnson observed, ' That no man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, nor more wise when he had.' The strong features of benevolence and humanity that distinguished the... | |
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. 
