...did not deserve the Johnsonian antithesis which even goodhumoured Langton repeats so complacently : ' no man was ' more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more ' wise when he had.' Walpole said much the same thing of Hume, whose writings he thought so superior to his conversation...

...did not deserve the Johnsonian antithesis which even goodhumoured Langton repeats so complacently : ' no man was ' more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more ' wise when he had.' Walpole said much the same thing of Hume, whose writings he thought so superior to his conversation...

...did not deserve the Johnsonian antithesis which even goodhumoured Langton repeats so complacently : ' no man was ' more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more ' wise when he had.' Walpole said much the same thing of Hume, whose writings he thought so superior to his conversation...

...circumstance also occurred at a party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's. Dr. Johnson said truly of him,— " No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had:" and on another occasion,—" Goldsmith was a man who, whatever he wrote, did it better than any other...

...utmost avidity, and said, 'It is a life well written, and that well deserves to be recorded.' " " Of a certain noble lord, he said, ' Respect him you could...told, in his lively manner, the following literary anecdote: — ' Green and Guthrie, an Irishman and a Scotchman, undertook a translation of Duhalde's...

...up to such a man as Goldsmith ; and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.' Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, ' No man was more foolish...not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.' He said Goldsmith's blundering speech to Lord Shelburne, which has been so often mentioned, and which...

...up to such a man as Goldsmith ; and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.' Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, ' No man was more foolish...not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." He said Goldsmith's blundering speech to Lord Shelburne, which has been so often mentioned, and which...

...some truth to the Johnsonian antithesis which even good-humoured Langton repeats so complacently, " no man " was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or " more wise when' he had," we must yet admit it with due allowance. Walpole said much the same thing of Hume, whose writings he...

...utmost avidity, and said, 'It is a life well written, and that well deserves to be recorded.' " " Of a certain noble lord, he said, ' Respect him you could...Goldsmith, he said, ' No man was more foolish when he bad not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.' " " He told, in his lively manner, the following...

...and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.' . Of Dr. Goldsmith he said,«No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.' He said Goldsmith's blundering speech to Lord Shelburne, which has been so often mentioned, and which...