The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volum 1Putnam, 1850 |
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Pàgina 29
... interest alone ; they seemed mere machines , and all their thoughts were employed in the care of their horses . If we gently desired them to make more speed , they took not the least notice ; kind lan- guage was what they had by no ...
... interest alone ; they seemed mere machines , and all their thoughts were employed in the care of their horses . If we gently desired them to make more speed , they took not the least notice ; kind lan- guage was what they had by no ...
Pàgina 56
... interest , or from avarice , but seldom from compassion . The very eloquence of a poor man is disgusting ; and that mouth . which is opened even for flattery , is seldom expected to close without a petition . If , then , you would ward ...
... interest , or from avarice , but seldom from compassion . The very eloquence of a poor man is disgusting ; and that mouth . which is opened even for flattery , is seldom expected to close without a petition . If , then , you would ward ...
Pàgina 91
... interest to have the greatest part of them suppressed . They should be put under laws of not continuing open beyond a cer- tain hour , and harboring only proper persons . These rules , it may be said , will diminish the necessary taxes ...
... interest to have the greatest part of them suppressed . They should be put under laws of not continuing open beyond a cer- tain hour , and harboring only proper persons . These rules , it may be said , will diminish the necessary taxes ...
Pàgina 92
... interest of every government is to cultivate the necessaries , by which is always meant every happiness our own country can produce ; and suppress all the luxuries , by which is meant , on the other hand , every happiness imported from ...
... interest of every government is to cultivate the necessaries , by which is always meant every happiness our own country can produce ; and suppress all the luxuries , by which is meant , on the other hand , every happiness imported from ...
Pàgina 111
... interest the passions of our youth , where such an one might be praised for having resisted allure- ments when young , and how he at last became lord mayor ; how he was married to a lady of great sense , fortune , and beauty : to be as ...
... interest the passions of our youth , where such an one might be praised for having resisted allure- ments when young , and how he at last became lord mayor ; how he was married to a lady of great sense , fortune , and beauty : to be as ...
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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 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 571 - THE ROMAN HISTORY ] FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY OF ROME TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 296 - ... mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise.