The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1835 |
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Pagina 18
... greatest , and perhaps the oldest institution of the kind , had it widened the basis of its institution , though they might not have propagated more discoveries , they would probably have delivered them in a more pleasing and ...
... greatest , and perhaps the oldest institution of the kind , had it widened the basis of its institution , though they might not have propagated more discoveries , they would probably have delivered them in a more pleasing and ...
Pagina 40
... greatest beauties in poetry , must be avoided , or the connoisseur be displeased . It is one of the chief privileges , however , of genius , to fly from the herd of imitators by some happy singularity ; for , should he stand still , his ...
... greatest beauties in poetry , must be avoided , or the connoisseur be displeased . It is one of the chief privileges , however , of genius , to fly from the herd of imitators by some happy singularity ; for , should he stand still , his ...
Pagina 43
... greatest noise with their wares in the streets that have most to sell . Let us , instead of writing finely , try to write naturally ; not hunt after lofty expressions to deliver mean ideas , nor be for ever gaping , when we only mean to ...
... greatest noise with their wares in the streets that have most to sell . Let us , instead of writing finely , try to write naturally ; not hunt after lofty expressions to deliver mean ideas , nor be for ever gaping , when we only mean to ...
Pagina 47
... greatest advantages which result to youth from travel , are an easy address , the shaking off national prejudices , and the finding nothing ridiculous in national peculiarities . The time spent in these acquisitions could have been more ...
... greatest advantages which result to youth from travel , are an easy address , the shaking off national prejudices , and the finding nothing ridiculous in national peculiarities . The time spent in these acquisitions could have been more ...
Pagina 48
... greatest number of universities have ever been founded in times of the greatest ignorance . New improvements in learning are seldom adopted in colleges until admitted everywhere else . And this is right : we should always be cautious of ...
... greatest number of universities have ever been founded in times of the greatest ignorance . New improvements in learning are seldom adopted in colleges until admitted everywhere else . And this is right : we should always be cautious of ...
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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...