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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... served to hasten his own . On the thirty - first of May , 1716 , he was presented , by his friend and patron Archbishop King , to the vicarage of Finglass , a benefice worth about four hundred pounds a year , in the diocese of Dublin ...
... served to hasten his own . On the thirty - first of May , 1716 , he was presented , by his friend and patron Archbishop King , to the vicarage of Finglass , a benefice worth about four hundred pounds a year , in the diocese of Dublin ...
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... serve for an annuity for my own time , though I leave nothing to posterity . < 6 I beg our correspondence may be more frequent than it has been of late . I am sure my esteem and love for you never more deserved it from you , or more ...
... serve for an annuity for my own time , though I leave nothing to posterity . < 6 I beg our correspondence may be more frequent than it has been of late . I am sure my esteem and love for you never more deserved it from you , or more ...
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... in the tone of his own complaints ; and these descriptions of the ima- gined distress of his situation served to give him a temporary temporary relief ; they threw off the blame from himself 12 LIFE OF DR . PARNELL .
... in the tone of his own complaints ; and these descriptions of the ima- gined distress of his situation served to give him a temporary temporary relief ; they threw off the blame from himself 12 LIFE OF DR . PARNELL .
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... served to releve himself , yet it was not easily endured by the gentlemen of the neigh- bourhood , who did not care to confess themselves his fellow - sufferers . He received many mortifications upon that account among them ; for ...
... served to releve himself , yet it was not easily endured by the gentlemen of the neigh- bourhood , who did not care to confess themselves his fellow - sufferers . He received many mortifications upon that account among them ; for ...
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... serve to cement any so- ciety , and that could hardly be replaced when he was taken away . During the two or three last years of his life , he was more fond of company than ever , and could scarcely bear to be alone . The death of his ...
... serve to cement any so- ciety , and that could hardly be replaced when he was taken away . During the two or three last years of his life , he was more fond of company than ever , and could scarcely bear to be alone . The death of his ...
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Sida 437 - 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...
Sida 420 - 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 420 - 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?
Sida 420 - 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...
Sida 206 - ... 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...
Sida 427 - 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...
Sida 428 - O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Sida 67 - ... 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.
Sida 21 - 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.
Sida 394 - 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.