The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Tom 2J. Murray, 1837 |
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... much of which is omitted , though very characteristic of the satire and point of the writer , runs thus : - * MS . correspondence in the possession of Mr. Mason . " Since I received your favour , I have spent 8 LIFE OF GOLDSMITH .
... much of which is omitted , though very characteristic of the satire and point of the writer , runs thus : - * MS . correspondence in the possession of Mr. Mason . " Since I received your favour , I have spent 8 LIFE OF GOLDSMITH .
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From a Variety of Original Sources Sir James Prior. " Since I received your favour , I have spent some hours in a fruitless inquiry about the epilogue you have quoted , but even the accurate Mr. Reed can supply no information on the ...
From a Variety of Original Sources Sir James Prior. " Since I received your favour , I have spent some hours in a fruitless inquiry about the epilogue you have quoted , but even the accurate Mr. Reed can supply no information on the ...
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... favour ; to do this well requires poetical powers of a high order , good taste , a philosophical spirit of observation , and that nice discrimination which seizes only upon such points as mark national peculiarities in the strongest ...
... favour ; to do this well requires poetical powers of a high order , good taste , a philosophical spirit of observation , and that nice discrimination which seizes only upon such points as mark national peculiarities in the strongest ...
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... favour towards it seems no longer doubtful , is necessarily an anxious one for an author . Το Goldsmith , notwithstanding some affected indif- ference expressed in the dedication , it could not be an unimportant matter ; it was the ...
... favour towards it seems no longer doubtful , is necessarily an anxious one for an author . Το Goldsmith , notwithstanding some affected indif- ference expressed in the dedication , it could not be an unimportant matter ; it was the ...
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... favour , having in view , perhaps , the instan- taneous popularity acquired not long before by the satires of Churchill . Allusions were even made to the neglect of the public , in a criticism said to be written by Bonnel Thornton , who ...
... favour , having in view , perhaps , the instan- taneous popularity acquired not long before by the satires of Churchill . Allusions were even made to the neglect of the public , in a criticism said to be written by Bonnel Thornton , who ...
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Strona 263 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Strona 244 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Strona 274 - 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...
Strona 266 - Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school...
Strona 30 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Strona 81 - Twas Edwin's self that prest ! " Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee ! " Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign : And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine ? " No, never from this hour to part, Well live and love so true ; The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Strona 113 - THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Strona 205 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
Strona 313 - But, hang it ! to poets who seldom can eat Your very good mutton's a very good treat ; Such dainties to them their health it might hurt ; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Strona 168 - With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious bard, without complaint, may share This bustling season's epidemic care, Like...