The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volym 1Putnam, 1850 |
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... obliged to substitute vivacity . His first publication draws a crowd ; they part dissatisfied , and the author , never more to be indulged with a favorable hearing , is left to condemn the indelicacy of his own address , or their want ...
... obliged to substitute vivacity . His first publication draws a crowd ; they part dissatisfied , and the author , never more to be indulged with a favorable hearing , is left to condemn the indelicacy of his own address , or their want ...
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... obliged to supply stage gestures by their imagination alone . A French comedian finds proper models of action in every company and in every coffee - house he enters . An English- man is obliged to take his models from the stage itself ...
... obliged to supply stage gestures by their imagination alone . A French comedian finds proper models of action in every company and in every coffee - house he enters . An English- man is obliged to take his models from the stage itself ...
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... obliged to take up his lodging in one of the tombs with- out the city , the usual retreat of guilt , poverty , or despair . The In this mansion of horror , laying his head upon an inverted urn , he forgot his miseries for a while in ...
... obliged to take up his lodging in one of the tombs with- out the city , the usual retreat of guilt , poverty , or despair . The In this mansion of horror , laying his head upon an inverted urn , he forgot his miseries for a while in ...
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... obliged to have girls to conduct us to the next . I have seen a woman travel thus on horseback before us for thirty miles , and think herself highly paid , and make twenty reverences , upon receiving , with ecstasy , about two - pence ...
... obliged to have girls to conduct us to the next . I have seen a woman travel thus on horseback before us for thirty miles , and think herself highly paid , and make twenty reverences , upon receiving , with ecstasy , about two - pence ...
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... obliged to have their mon- strous tails trundled along in a go - cart . For all her airs , it goes to her husband's heart to see four yards of good lutestring wear- ing against the ground , like one of his knives on a grindstone . To ...
... obliged to have their mon- strous tails trundled along in a go - cart . For all her airs , it goes to her husband's heart to see four yards of good lutestring wear- ing against the ground , like one of his knives on a grindstone . To ...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of ..., Volym 1 Oliver Goldsmith,Sir James Prior Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1850 |
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Sida 304 - 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...
Sida ix - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Sida 327 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Sida 26 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Sida 571 - THE ROMAN HISTORY ] FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY OF ROME TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE.
Sida 444 - If the author be, therefore, still so necessary among us, let us treat him with proper consideration, as a child of the public, not a rent-charge on the community. And, indeed, a child of the public he is in all respects; for while so well able to direct others, how incapable is he frequently found of guiding himself. His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning, his sensibility to the slightest invasions of contempt. Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected...
Sida 118 - A few years ago, the herring fishery employed all Grub Street; it was the topic in every coffee-house, and the burden of every ballad. We were to drag up oceans of gold from the bottom of the sea; we were to supply all Europe with herrings upon our own terms.
Sida 375 - ... since low life and middle life are entirely its object. The principal question therefore is, whether in describing low or middle life, an exhibition of its follies be not preferable to a detail of its calamities; or, in other words, which deserves the preference ; the weeping sentimental comedy, so much in fashion at present,* or the laughing and even low comedy, which seems to have been last exhibited by Vanbrugh and Cibber ? If we apply to authorities, all the great masters in the dramatic...
Sida 76 - Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost impatience, repairing the breaches 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...
Sida 296 - ... mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise.