 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...shared some part at least of his hero's miseries. " On a bunk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of The Wanderer, the man of exaliad sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Biography - 1880 - 388 pages
...speculations, useful studies, or pleasing conversation. On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of ' The Wanderer,' a man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Theater - 1884 - 326 pages
...speculations, useful studies, or pleasing conversation. On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of...senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.' On the death of the queen the sum he was in the habit of receiving from her as voluntary laureate ceased,... | |
 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 400 pages
...dinner. — Life. April 14, 1778. On a hulk, in a cellar, or in a glasshouse, v "•'""• 'JavaBeamong thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of...remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose idea of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates,... | |
 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 376 pages
...curious observations : the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose idea of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose...senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts. — Lives of the Poets. Savage. Savages, in all countries, have patience proportionate to their unskilfulness,... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Theater - 1885 - 306 pages
...speculations, useful studies, or pleasing conversation. On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of...senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts/ On the death of the queen the sum he was in the habit of receiving from her as voluntary laureate ceased,... | |
 | Robert C. Ferguson - New Zealand essays - 1887 - 308 pages
...from vice restrained." Johnson says of Savage : " In a hulk, in a cellar, or in a glass house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of...of exalted sentiments, extensive views and curious observation ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of nature... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 458 pages
...vagabond. Johnson in his Life of Savage (iii. 325, ed. 1787) says: "On a bulk, in a •cellar, among thieves and beggars was to be found the author of the Wanderer." A good illustration of the •word is given by Mr. Wright from Defoe's History of the Plague In London... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Actors - 1897 - 362 pages
...speculations, useful studies, or pleasing conversation. On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of...senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.'' On the death of the queen the sum he was in the hubit of receiving from her as voluntary laureate ceased,... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...shared some part at least of his hero's miseries. " On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of...the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senators, and whose delicacy might have polished courts." Very shocking, no doubt, and yet hardly surprising... | |
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Wanderer,' the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates,... 
