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" The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been filled with mourners, the reverse of domestic ; women without a home, without domesticity of any kind, with no friend but him they had come to weep for ; outcasts of that great, solitary, wicked city,... "
The Hibernian Magazine. ... - Page 47
1864
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The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems ..., Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 pages
...that were now cold in death. "The staircase of Brick Court," writes Mr. Forstcr, with genuine pathos, "is said to have been filled with mourners the reverse...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable." Mourners, too, gentle and loving, whose happy domestic hearths will miss his cheering presence and...
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The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations, Issue 76, Volume 13

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...distress he had not been known to do, left his painting-room, and did not re-enter it that day. . . . ' The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been...outcasts of that great, solitary, wicked city, to whom poor fellow sighed, when he -wrote with heart yearning for home those most charming of all fond verses,...
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The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 pages
...his failings be remembered; he was a very great man." — Dn. JOHNSON to Boswell, July 5(A, 1774. " The stair-case of Brick Court is said to have been...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable. And he had domestic mourners, too. His coffin was re-opened at the request of Miss Horneck and her...
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 19

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...family distress he had not been known to do, left his painting-room, and did not re-enter it that day " The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable. And he had domestic mourners, too. His coffin was re-opened at the request of Miss Horneck and her...
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The works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 19

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...family distress he had not been known to do, left his painting-room, and did not re-enter it that day " The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable. And he had domestic mourners, too. His coffin was re-opened at the request of Miss Horneck and her...
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The Four Georges: The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...family distress he had not been known to do, left his painting-room, and did not re-enter it that day " The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable. And he had domestic mourners, too. His coffin was re-opened at the request of Miss Horneck and her...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1870 - 360 pages
...family-distress he had not been known to do, left his painting-room, and did not re-enter it that day " The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been...home, without domesticity of any kind, with no friend hut him they had come to weep for ; outcasts of that great, solitary, wicked city, to whom he had never...
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The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems ..., Volume 51

Oliver Goldsmith - 1871 - 434 pages
...staircase of Brick Court," writes Mr. Forster, with genuine pathos, "is said to have been filled witty mourners the reverse of domestic ; women without a....city, to whom he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable.1' Mourners, too, gentle and loving, whose happy domestic hearths will miss his, cheering...
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...distress he had not been known to do, left his painting-room, and did not re-enter it that day ' ' The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been...but him they had come to weep for; outcasts of that poor fellow sighed, when he wrote with heart yearning for home those most charming of all fond verses,...
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Life and Works of Charlotte Bronté and Her Sisters: The life of Charlotte ...

Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 492 pages
...in Mr. Forster's Life of Goldsmith. Speaking of the scene after his death, the writer says : — " The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable." This came into my mind when I heard of some of the circumstances attendant on Charlotte's funeral....
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