The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the AuthorR. Chapman, 1816 |
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... the fair with a small cargo of Chinese morality . If the Chinese have contributed to vitiate our taste , I'll try how far they can help to improve our un- derstanding . But as others have driven into the market PREFACE . V.
... the fair with a small cargo of Chinese morality . If the Chinese have contributed to vitiate our taste , I'll try how far they can help to improve our un- derstanding . But as others have driven into the market PREFACE . V.
Pagina 2
... improve , for I have already all that I want . My passage by sea from Rotterdam to England was more painful to me than all the journies I ever made on land . I have traversed the immeasurable wilds of Mogul Tartary ; felt CITIZEN OF THE ...
... improve , for I have already all that I want . My passage by sea from Rotterdam to England was more painful to me than all the journies I ever made on land . I have traversed the immeasurable wilds of Mogul Tartary ; felt CITIZEN OF THE ...
Pagina 6
... improve her simple plan , since every extrava- gance in dress proceeds from a desire of becoming more beautiful than Nature made us ; and this is so harmless a vanity that I not only pardon but approve it : a desire to be more excellent ...
... improve her simple plan , since every extrava- gance in dress proceeds from a desire of becoming more beautiful than Nature made us ; and this is so harmless a vanity that I not only pardon but approve it : a desire to be more excellent ...
Pagina 7
... improves in beauty , dresses up his hard - featured face in smiles , and attempts to look hideously tender . Thus equipped , he is qualified to make love , and hopes for success more from the powder on the outside of his head , than the ...
... improves in beauty , dresses up his hard - featured face in smiles , and attempts to look hideously tender . Thus equipped , he is qualified to make love , and hopes for success more from the powder on the outside of his head , than the ...
Pagina 23
... improve rather in humility than wisdom . Their laws and religion forbid the English to keep more than one woman ; I therefore concluded that prostitutes were banished from society ; I was deceived ; every man here keeps as many wives as ...
... improve rather in humility than wisdom . Their laws and religion forbid the English to keep more than one woman ; I therefore concluded that prostitutes were banished from society ; I was deceived ; every man here keeps as many wives as ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 288 - A man of letters at present whose works are valuable is perfectly sensible of their value. Every polite member of the community, by buying what he writes, contributes to reward him. The ridicule therefore of living in a garret might have been wit in the last age, but continues such no longer, because no longer true. A writer of real merit now may easily be rich if his heart be set only on fortune : and for those who have no merit it is but fit that such should remain in merited obscurity.
Pagina 3 - ... from the oracle of some coffeehouse, which oracle has himself gathered them the night before from a beau at a gaming-table, who has pillaged his knowledge from a great man's porter, who has had his information from the great man's gentleman, who has invented the whole story for his own amusement the night preceding.
Pagina 392 - ... their misery. But who are those who make the streets their couch, and find a short repose from wretchedness at the doors of the opulent ? These are strangers, wanderers, and orphans, whose circumstances are too humble to expect redress, and whose distresses are too great even for pity.
Pagina 209 - ... was heir to no other inheritance than the virtues and frugality of her parents. Her father being dead, she lived with her aged mother in their cottage covered with straw ; and both, though very poor, were very contented.
Pagina 274 - I promised," replied the emperor with a generous air, " to destroy my enemies ; I have fulfilled my word, for see they are enemies no longer ; I have made friends of them.
Pagina 75 - A wretch, who in the deepest distress still aimed at good-humour, was an object my friend was by no means capable of withstanding : his vivacity and his discourse were instantly interrupted ; upon this occasion his very dissimulation had forsaken him. Even in my presence he immediately applied his hands to his pockets, in order to relieve her ; but guess his confusion when he found he had already given away all the money he carried about him to former objects.
Pagina 76 - ... and that was laughed at; he repeated the jest of the two scholars and one pair of breeches, and the company laughed at that ; but the story of Taffy in...
Pagina 398 - I believe the devil put it in my head to fling my stick at it: — well, what will you have on't?
Pagina 11 - Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Pagina 251 - ... calamities of decaying nature, and the consciousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him, with his own hand, to terminate the scene of misery ; but happily the contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial, and life acquires an imaginary value in proportion as its real value is no more.