Oliver Goldsmith: A BiographyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1864 - 427 pagina's |
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acquaintance admirers amusement appearance Ballymahon Beauclerc beauty Bennet Langton Bickerstaff bookseller Boswell brother Henry Burke called CHAPTER character club comedy companion Contarine conversation Countess of Northumberland Covent Garden dear delight dinner endeavored fame fortune friends furnished Garrick gave genius give Glover Gold good-humor Good-natured grace Green Arbor guinea heart History honor Horneck humor intimacy Ireland Irish Islington Johnson kind knew lady landlady Langton letter Lissoy literary London Lord manner means ment merits mind nature never Newbery occasion occasionally OLIVER GOLDSMITH person Peter Barlow play poem poet poor Goldsmith pounds purse replied scenes shoemaker's holiday Sir Joshua Reynolds smith soon speak Stephen Langton strolls style talents talk taste Tavern Temple thought tion told Tom King took town Traveller Vicar of Wakefield whimsical William Filby writings young youth
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Pagina 212 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Pagina 139 - I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him.
Pagina 211 - ... 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; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Pagina 140 - ... Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used...
Pagina 14 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write and...
Pagina 211 - 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 53 - I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys...
Pagina 161 - The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Pagina 194 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm...
Pagina 286 - As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art.