The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1835 |
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Pagina 8
... soon forgotten , those made by ourselves are permanent and useful . But it seems , understandings of every size were to be mechanically instructed in poetry . If the reader was too dull to relish the beauties of Virgil , the comment of ...
... soon forgotten , those made by ourselves are permanent and useful . But it seems , understandings of every size were to be mechanically instructed in poetry . If the reader was too dull to relish the beauties of Virgil , the comment of ...
Pagina 14
... soon , however , fell from emulating the wonders of antiquity into simple admiration . As if the word had been given , when Vida and Tasso wrote on the arts of poetry , the whole swarm of critics was up . The Speronis of the age ...
... soon , however , fell from emulating the wonders of antiquity into simple admiration . As if the word had been given , when Vida and Tasso wrote on the arts of poetry , the whole swarm of critics was up . The Speronis of the age ...
Pagina 19
... soon decay . As it rose , so it will decline with its great encourager . The society , if I may so speak , is artificially supported . The introduction of foreigners of learning was right ; but in adopting a foreign language also , I ...
... soon decay . As it rose , so it will decline with its great encourager . The society , if I may so speak , is artificially supported . The introduction of foreigners of learning was right ; but in adopting a foreign language also , I ...
Pagina 40
... soon forgotten . : There never was an unbeaten path trodden by the poet that the critic did not endeavour to reclaim him , by calling his attempt innovation . This might be instanced in Dante , who first followed nature , and was ...
... soon forgotten . : There never was an unbeaten path trodden by the poet that the critic did not endeavour to reclaim him , by calling his attempt innovation . This might be instanced in Dante , who first followed nature , and was ...
Pagina 49
... soon as possible . The universities of Oxford , & c . are improper for this , since they keep the student from the world , which , after a certain time , is the only true school of improvement . When a degree in the professions can be ...
... soon as possible . The universities of Oxford , & c . are improper for this , since they keep the student from the world , which , after a certain time , is the only true school of improvement . When a degree in the professions can be ...
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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...