The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith..J. Johnson; W.J. and J. Richardson; W. Otridge and Son; F. and C. Rivington; J. Walker; W. Lowndes; Vernor and Hood; Cuthell and Martin; F. Wingrave; Scatcherd and Letterman; Wilkie and Robinson; R. Lea; Darton and Harvey; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; and J. Matthews., 1806 |
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... is scarcely any man but might be made the subject of a very interesting and amusing history , if the writer , besides a thorough acquaintance with the B 2 character character he draws , were able to make those nice LIFE OF DR . FARNELL 3 ་
... is scarcely any man but might be made the subject of a very interesting and amusing history , if the writer , besides a thorough acquaintance with the B 2 character character he draws , were able to make those nice LIFE OF DR . FARNELL 3 ་
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... writer's good sense to disclaim his private friends for hap 、 pening to be of a different party in politics ; but it was then otherwise , the whig wits held the tory wits in great contempt , and these retaliated in their turn . At the ...
... writer's good sense to disclaim his private friends for hap 、 pening to be of a different party in politics ; but it was then otherwise , the whig wits held the tory wits in great contempt , and these retaliated in their turn . At the ...
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... writer con- tended in affection , it will appear much to the ho- nour of those who wrote it . To be mindful of an absent friend in the hours of mirth and feasting , when his company is least wanted , shews no slight degree of sincerity ...
... writer con- tended in affection , it will appear much to the ho- nour of those who wrote it . To be mindful of an absent friend in the hours of mirth and feasting , when his company is least wanted , shews no slight degree of sincerity ...
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... writer , was I fallen for my sins . Still , however , he went on , steering in the wide ocean without a compass , till the death of Lewis XIV . and the arrival of the Duke of Ormond at Paris rendered all his endeavours abortive : yet ...
... writer , was I fallen for my sins . Still , however , he went on , steering in the wide ocean without a compass , till the death of Lewis XIV . and the arrival of the Duke of Ormond at Paris rendered all his endeavours abortive : yet ...
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... writer . Having passed the latter part of his life in dignity and splendour , his rational faculties improved by re- flection , and his ambition kept under by disappoint- ment , his whole aim seemed to have been to leave the stage of ...
... writer . Having passed the latter part of his life in dignity and splendour , his rational faculties improved by re- flection , and his ambition kept under by disappoint- ment , his whole aim seemed to have been to leave the stage of ...
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437. oldal - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
420. oldal - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
420. oldal - For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
420. oldal - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
206. oldal - ... of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a new net...
427. oldal - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
428. oldal - O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
67. oldal - ... beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl. " 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 two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm.
21. oldal - He appears to me to be the last of that great school that had modelled itself upon the ancients, and taught English poetry to resemble what the generality of mankind have allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he set himself to consider nature with the lights it lent him ; and he found that the more aid he borrowed from the one, the more delightfully he resembled the other.
394. oldal - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.