...me Professor of Ancient History in the Boyal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather...compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to one that wants a shirt. " You tell me...

...says, ' I took it rather as a compliment to the institution tion than any benefit to myself. Honours to one In my situation are something like ruffles to one that wants a shirt.' A less vain and simple man would have reversed the phrase and represented the appointment as a compliment...

...says, ' I took it rather as a compliment to the institution tion than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something: like ruffles to one that wants a shirt.' A less vain and simple man would have reversed the phrase and represented the appointment as a compliment...

...the office, and Goldsmith, in a stray letter to his brother Maurice in the January following, says, " I took it rather as a compliment to the institution...something like ruffles to one that wants a shirt." A less vain and simple man would have reversed the phrase, and represented the appointment as a compliment...

...make ma professor of Ancient History in a royal academy of painting which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather...compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to one that wants a shirt. " You tell me...

...friendship of Reynolds, but without salary ; and he himself says of his penniless preferment, " Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to one that wants a shirt." Of like unprofitable character was that Oxford ad eimdem, said to have been procured for him by his...

...a place, says Percy, at the yearly dinner. Of this honor Goldsmith thus writes to his brother : '' I took it rather as a compliment to the institution...one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man who wants a shirt." Lastly, the King, to give dignity to the Royal Academy of Great Britain,...

...me professor of Ancient History in the royal academy of painting which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather...something like ruffles to one that wants a shirt. "You tell me that there are fourteen or fifteen pounds left me in the hands of my cousin Lawder, and...

...me professor of Ancient History in the royal academy of painting which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather...something like ruffles to one that wants a shirt. " You tell me that there are fourteen or fifteen pounds left me in the hands of my cousin Lawder, and...

...remark, on hearing of his appointment, was somewhat characteristic. " I took it," he (107) 15 226 says, " rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man who wants a shirt." To the great...