 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 471864Full view - About this book
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - 1889 - 334 pages
...produced on the street beggars, lie says: "The staircase in Brick Court (Goldsmith's last residence) is said to have been filled with mourners the reverse of domestic, women without a home, with no "friend but him they had come to weep for, outcasts of that great wicked city, to whom he had... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 474 pages
...distress he had not been known to do, left his paintingroom, 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1894 - 112 pages
...poor and miserable. Look at the poor man lying dead in his solitary chamber. " The staircase of Birch Court is said to have been filled with mourners, the...city, to whom he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable."1 There were two sets of people who looked upon Oliver Goldsmith the poet, and each saw... | |
 | Gwendolen Cecil - 1895 - 192 pages
...I but known it, was with me. I cringed in habitude and let him thrash me with the whip. CHAPTEE II. "The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable." — FOKSTEK'S ' Life of Goldsmith.' AGAIN a long sad time passed — a time still of the man and the... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1895 - 530 pages
...poor and miserable. Look at the poor man lying dead in his solitary chamber. " The staircase of Birch Court is said to have been filled with mourners, the...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable." 1 1 Forater's The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, ii. 467. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. INTRODUCTORY NOTE.... | |
 | Charles Dent Bell - 1895 - 296 pages
...day. The staircase in Brick Court is said to have been filled with mourners — women without a home, with no friend but him they had come to weep for ;...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable. Other mourners he had, two. His coffin was reopened at the request of Miss Horneck and her sister —... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 510 pages
...distress he had not been known to do, left his paintingroom, 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 wag re-opened at the request of Miss Horneck and her... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1896 - 264 pages
...could not possibly know in what other undomestic ways it might be felt. The staircase of BrickCourt is said to have been filled with mourners, the reverse...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable. And he had domestic mourners too. His coffin was reopened at the request of Miss Horueck and her sister... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1896 - 270 pages
...could not possibly know in what other undomestic ways it might be felt. The staircase of BrickCourt is said to have been filled with mourners, the reverse...he had never forgotten to be kind and charitable. And he had domestic mourners too. His coffin was reopened at the request of Miss Horneck and her sister... | |
 | 1873 - 864 pages
...painfully reminded her of the scene after the death of Oliver Goldsmith. Mr. Foster thus describes it: — "The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been...without domesticity of any kind, with no friend but him it be matter of her vorks should the character of her life ? The wonder they had come to weep for ;... | |
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