The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volume 4Putnam, 1850 |
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Pagina 18
... mean party . Party entirely distorts the judgment and de- stroys the taste . When the mind is once infected with this disease , it can only find pleasure in what contributes to in- crease the distemper . Like the tiger that seldom ...
... mean party . Party entirely distorts the judgment and de- stroys the taste . When the mind is once infected with this disease , it can only find pleasure in what contributes to in- crease the distemper . Like the tiger that seldom ...
Pagina 21
... mean tardiness of locomotion ; you mean that sluggishness of mind which comes upon a man in solitude . ' He , however , was a man who , whatever he wrote , did it better than any other man could do : he deserved a place in Westminster ...
... mean tardiness of locomotion ; you mean that sluggishness of mind which comes upon a man in solitude . ' He , however , was a man who , whatever he wrote , did it better than any other man could do : he deserved a place in Westminster ...
Pagina 32
... means of subsistence . I passed among the harmless peas- ants of Flanders , and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry ; for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants . When- ever I approached a ...
... means of subsistence . I passed among the harmless peas- ants of Flanders , and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry ; for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants . When- ever I approached a ...
Pagina 36
... mean to flatter kings , or court the great : Ye powers of truth , that bid my soul aspire , Far from my bosom drive the low desire ; And thou , fair Freedom , taught alike to feel The rabble's rage , and tyrant's angry steel ; Thou ...
... mean to flatter kings , or court the great : Ye powers of truth , that bid my soul aspire , Far from my bosom drive the low desire ; And thou , fair Freedom , taught alike to feel The rabble's rage , and tyrant's angry steel ; Thou ...
Pagina 39
... means thunder - water . ] † [ " And the brown Indian takes a deadly aim . " - First edit . ] [ " Dr. Johnson said of Goldsmith's Traveller , ' which had been published in my absence , there had not been so fine a poem since Pope's time ...
... means thunder - water . ] † [ " And the brown Indian takes a deadly aim . " - First edit . ] [ " Dr. Johnson said of Goldsmith's Traveller , ' which had been published in my absence , there had not been so fine a poem since Pope's time ...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety ..., Volume 4 Oliver Goldsmith Volledige weergave - 1887 |
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Pagina 70 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Pagina 39 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Pagina 64 - ... sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing pair that simply...
Pagina 69 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Pagina 71 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven.
Pagina 76 - But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Pagina 72 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school.
Pagina 78 - Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing. But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Pagina 29 - No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Pagina 33 - But, while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise; For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul, within, itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. Hence ostentation here, with tawdry art, Pants for the vulgar praise which fools impart; Here vanity assumes her pert grimace, And trims her robes of frieze with copper lace; Here beggar- pride defrauds her daily cheer, To boast one...