The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1835 |
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Pagina 9
... never lose a passion for letters , while they continuc to be either amusing or useful . more than It was such writers as these , that rendered learning unfit for uniting and strengthening civil society , or for promoting the views of ...
... never lose a passion for letters , while they continuc to be either amusing or useful . more than It was such writers as these , that rendered learning unfit for uniting and strengthening civil society , or for promoting the views of ...
Pagina 10
... never ventured out into the great ocean of knowledge , nor went beyond the bounds that chance , conceit , or laziness , had first prescribed their inquiries . Their disciples , instead of aiming at being originals themselves , became ...
... never ventured out into the great ocean of knowledge , nor went beyond the bounds that chance , conceit , or laziness , had first prescribed their inquiries . Their disciples , instead of aiming at being originals themselves , became ...
Pagina 13
... never secure any age whatsoever from oblivion . Nor can printing , contrary to what Mr Baumelle has remarked , prevent literary decline for the future , since it only increases the number of books without advancing their intrinsic merit ...
... never secure any age whatsoever from oblivion . Nor can printing , contrary to what Mr Baumelle has remarked , prevent literary decline for the future , since it only increases the number of books without advancing their intrinsic merit ...
Pagina 17
... Never fatigued themselves , they think the reader can never be weary ; so they drone on , saying all that can be said on the subject , not selecting what may be advanced to the purpose . Were angels to write books , they would never ...
... Never fatigued themselves , they think the reader can never be weary ; so they drone on , saying all that can be said on the subject , not selecting what may be advanced to the purpose . Were angels to write books , they would never ...
Pagina 23
... never risen to any degree of perfection . Let us now examine the merits of modern learning in France and England ; where , though it may be on the decline , yet it is still capable of retrieving much of its former splendour . In other ...
... never risen to any degree of perfection . Let us now examine the merits of modern learning in France and England ; where , though it may be on the decline , yet it is still capable of retrieving much of its former splendour . In other ...
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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...