Date: 1766
"My fancy draws that harmless groupe as listening to every line of this with great composure."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1766-1769, 1956
"Only this more. The ideas--my lodgers--are of all sorts. Some, gentlemen of the law, who pay me a great deal more than others. Divines of all sorts have been with me, and have ever disturbed me. When I first took up house, Presbyterian ministers used to make me melancholy with dreary tones. Meth...
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1770
"Imagination fondly stoops to trace / The parlour splendours of that festive place."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)