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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of ..., Volum 1 Oliver Goldsmith,Sir James Prior Visualització completa - 1850 |
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of ..., Volum 1 Oliver Goldsmith,Sir James Prior Visualització completa - 1850 |
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of ..., Volum 1 Oliver Goldsmith Visualització completa - 1875 |
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admiration affectation amusement ancient appear attempt attended beauty become called cause character consider continued criticism desire England English entirely equal ESSAY Europe excellence expect expression eyes feel figure formed fortune France French friends genius give going hand happiness head heart human idea imagination imitation improvement instance interest Italy kind labor lady language late laws learning least less lived mankind manner means merit mind nature never object obliged observed occasion once original passion perhaps period person philosopher pleasing pleasure poet poetry polite poor possessed present produced proper reader reason received regard respect says scarcely seems seen sense serve short society soon spirit taste thing thought tion true truth turn universal virtue whole writer young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 302 - 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...
Pàgina vii - 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.
Pàgina 325 - 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.
Pàgina 24 - 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.
Pàgina 569 - THE ROMAN HISTORY ] FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY OF ROME TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE.
Pàgina 442 - 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...
Pàgina 116 - 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.
Pàgina 373 - ... 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...
Pàgina 74 - 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...
Pàgina 294 - ... mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise.
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volum 1 The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Oliver Goldsmith |
| Autors | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior |
| Editor | Putnam, 1850 |
| Original de | Universitat de Harvard |
| Digitalitzat el | 15 Nov. 2007 |
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