The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volume 2E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1837 - 550 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... successes , what difficulties or privations , the latter were written . We shall be the more surprised at the neglect in this instance on considering , that almost as soon as he thought proper to affix his name to his produc- tions , it ...
... successes , what difficulties or privations , the latter were written . We shall be the more surprised at the neglect in this instance on considering , that almost as soon as he thought proper to affix his name to his produc- tions , it ...
Pagina ix
... success to ac- quire more extended information of his earlier life , and who also , by means of a public subscription , attempted in vain to raise a column to his memory on the spot where he was born . This gentleman strongly urged the ...
... success to ac- quire more extended information of his earlier life , and who also , by means of a public subscription , attempted in vain to raise a column to his memory on the spot where he was born . This gentleman strongly urged the ...
Pagina x
... success . Occasionally the writer could satisfy himself by such means , when perhaps he might have been unable to carry similar conviction to the minds of others . But it was not a little satisfactory to find , that the judgment he had ...
... success . Occasionally the writer could satisfy himself by such means , when perhaps he might have been unable to carry similar conviction to the minds of others . But it was not a little satisfactory to find , that the judgment he had ...
Pagina 33
... successful candidate through life , and enables him either to remain in college with advantage , or , should he decline to proceed for a fellowship , to quit it for any other pursuit with honour . The former would seem to have been the ...
... successful candidate through life , and enables him either to remain in college with advantage , or , should he decline to proceed for a fellowship , to quit it for any other pursuit with honour . The former would seem to have been the ...
Pagina 60
... success which attended his friend Beatty ; who in mentioning the misadventures of the poet , seldom adverted to his ... successful , entered into the church , encountered no material difficulties in life , found his sphere , perhaps ...
... success which attended his friend Beatty ; who in mentioning the misadventures of the poet , seldom adverted to his ... successful , entered into the church , encountered no material difficulties in life , found his sphere , perhaps ...
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Pagina 378 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill...
Pagina 381 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
Pagina 385 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain : Teach him, that states of native strength...
Pagina 363 - Goldsmith, to divert the tedious minutes, strutted about, bragging of his dress, and I believe was seriously vain of it, for his mind was wonderfully prone to such impressions. " Come, come (said Garrick), talk no more of that. You are, perhaps, the worst — eh, eh...
Pagina 350 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
Pagina 471 - I'll make Goldsmith forgive me ; ' and then called to him in a loud voice, ' Dr. Goldsmith, something passed today where you and I dined: I ask your pardon.' Goldsmith answered placidly, 'It must be much from you, sir, that I take ill.
Pagina 489 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail : For the joy of each sex, on the world I'll bestow it : This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet, Thro...
Pagina 223 - When accompanying two beautiful young ladies ' with their mother on a tour in France, he was seriously angry that more attention was paid to them than to him...
Pagina 176 - This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children: he called himself their friend ; but he was the friend of all mankind.
Pagina 265 - Ev'n the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, And trodden weeds send out a rich perfume. Bear me, some god, to Baia's gentle seats, Or cover me in Umbria's green retreats ; Where western gales eternally reside, And all the seasons lavish all their pride : Blossoms, and fruits, and flowers together rise, And the whole year in gay confusion lies.