Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)
Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930, Adcock, Frederick · London, J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 118
amb wouldhave understood him and laughed with him, for heloved to frivol and play the fool in the same vein.When he was dead, Johnson said he was a very great GOLDSMITH, REYNOLDS, ETC. 87 man ; and dont you think there is some touch ofremorse in that later remark of his, that the partialityof… … the reverse of domestic— women without a home,without domesticity of any kind, with no friend buthim they had come to weep for; outcasts of thatgreat, solitary, wicked city, to whom he had neverforgotten to be kind and charitable. And he haddomestic mourners, too. His coffin was reopened atthe…
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