The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1835 |
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Pagina 11
... French historians have exhibited the obscure ages in a very different light . They have represented them as utterly ignorant both of arts and sciences , buried in the profoundest darkness , or only illuminated with a feeble gleam ...
... French historians have exhibited the obscure ages in a very different light . They have represented them as utterly ignorant both of arts and sciences , buried in the profoundest darkness , or only illuminated with a feeble gleam ...
Pagina 19
... French , in which all the transactions are to be published , and questions debated , in this there was an error . As I have already hinted , the language of the natives of every country should be also the language of its polite learning ...
... French , in which all the transactions are to be published , and questions debated , in this there was an error . As I have already hinted , the language of the natives of every country should be also the language of its polite learning ...
Pagina 21
... French , at the same time avoid- ing no opportunity of improvement that his scanty funds could permit . But his ambition was not to be restrained , or his thirst of knowledge satisfied , until he had seen the world . Without money ...
... French , at the same time avoid- ing no opportunity of improvement that his scanty funds could permit . But his ambition was not to be restrained , or his thirst of knowledge satisfied , until he had seen the world . Without money ...
Pagina 22
... French have peculiar merit . He was honoured with nobility , and enriched by the bounty of the king ; so that a life begun in contempt and penury , ended in opulence and esteem . Thus we see in what a low state polite learning is in the ...
... French have peculiar merit . He was honoured with nobility , and enriched by the bounty of the king ; so that a life begun in contempt and penury , ended in opulence and esteem . Thus we see in what a low state polite learning is in the ...
Pagina 23
... French themselves are so far from giving into any despondence of this kind , that , on the contrary , they admire the progress they are daily making in every science . That levity , for which we are apt to despise this nation , is ...
... French themselves are so far from giving into any despondence of this kind , that , on the contrary , they admire the progress they are daily making in every science . That levity , for which we are apt to despise this nation , is ...
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absurdity acquainted admiration agreeable amusement antiquity appeared Aristotle attempts Ballymahon beauty character contempt continue criticism David Mallet Dr Johnson Duke of Ormond Earl of Mar eloquence endeavour enemy England English excellence expect fame favour fortune France French friends friendship genius give Goldsmith hand happiness honour humour imagination imitation Jacobite King labour lady language laws letters literary lived Lord Bolingbroke Lysippus mankind manner MDCCLXXI means merit mind never object obliged observed occasion Oliver Goldsmith once Parnell party passion perceive perhaps person philosopher pleasing pleasure poem poet poetry polite learning Pope possessed praise present Pretender profession proper reader regard reputation ridiculous scarcely Scotland seems seldom serve shew society soon sufficient supposed taste thing THOMAS PARNELL thought tion trifling truth virtue Voltaire vulgar Whigs whole writer written Zoilus
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Pagina 318 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules...
Pagina 319 - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Pagina 58 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY: His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Pagina 114 - ... pity. Some are without the covering even of rags, and others emaciated with disease ; the world has disclaimed them ; society turns its back upon their distress, and has given them up to nakedness and hunger.
Pagina 37 - And indeed a child of the public he is in all respects; for, while so well able to direct others, how incapable is he frequently found of guiding himself! His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning; his sensibility, to the slightest invasions of contempt. Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant as to agonise under the slightest disappointment.
Pagina 319 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Pagina 110 - The insect I am now describing lived three years ; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared cither for a defence or an attack.
Pagina 114 - How few appear in those streets which but some few hours ago were crowded; and those who appear now no longer wear their daily mask, nor attempt to hide their lewdness or their misery. But who are those who make the streets their couch, and find a short repose from wretchedness at...
Pagina 114 - Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! Poor houseless creatures ! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.
Pagina 242 - Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 200£ to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm...