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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Pàgina 2
... thought So. There is one presumption , however , of the early maturity of his understanding . He was admitted a member of the College of Dublin , at the age of thir- teen , which is much sooner than usual , as at that University they ...
... thought So. There is one presumption , however , of the early maturity of his understanding . He was admitted a member of the College of Dublin , at the age of thir- teen , which is much sooner than usual , as at that University they ...
Pàgina 4
... thought a very indifferent sign of a writer's good sense to disclaim his private friends for hap 、 pening to be of a different party in politics ; but it was then otherwise , the whig wits held the tory wits in great contempt , and ...
... thought a very indifferent sign of a writer's good sense to disclaim his private friends for hap 、 pening to be of a different party in politics ; but it was then otherwise , the whig wits held the tory wits in great contempt , and ...
Pàgina 6
... thoughts and good wishes as any man , and as great a portion of gratitude in my heart as would enrich a monarch ... thought , where I have lived , and where I now re- pose in obscurity . My friend Jervas , the bearer of this , will ...
... thoughts and good wishes as any man , and as great a portion of gratitude in my heart as would enrich a monarch ... thought , where I have lived , and where I now re- pose in obscurity . My friend Jervas , the bearer of this , will ...
Pàgina 12
... thoughts the solitary hours of your eremetical life in • the mountains , from some parallel to it in my own • retirement at Binfield : ' and in another place , We ' are both miserably enough situated , God knows ; ' but of the two evils ...
... thoughts the solitary hours of your eremetical life in • the mountains , from some parallel to it in my own • retirement at Binfield : ' and in another place , We ' are both miserably enough situated , God knows ; ' but of the two evils ...
Pàgina 16
... thought and opportunity is wanting , their pens want ink , their hands want pens , their hearts want hands , & c . till time , place , and conveniency , ⚫ concur to set them writing , as at present , a sociable meeting , a good dinner ...
... thought and opportunity is wanting , their pens want ink , their hands want pens , their hearts want hands , & c . till time , place , and conveniency , ⚫ concur to set them writing , as at present , a sociable meeting , a good dinner ...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His ..., Volum 4 Oliver Goldsmith Visualització completa - 1825 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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?
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.