The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, 1. köideGalignani & Didot, 1825 |
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... things , to beware of surfeiting them with a milk diet . To this sarcasm the other only replied by a sneer at the poet's poverty and improvident disposition . Their host being well acquainted with the character of his neighbour , seemed ...
... things , to beware of surfeiting them with a milk diet . To this sarcasm the other only replied by a sneer at the poet's poverty and improvident disposition . Their host being well acquainted with the character of his neighbour , seemed ...
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... thing of that kind worth preserving occurred in our poet's correspondence with his friends . The only circumstance which seems to have excited particular re- mark was the economy of the Scotch in cooking and eating ; and of this he ...
... thing of that kind worth preserving occurred in our poet's correspondence with his friends . The only circumstance which seems to have excited particular re- mark was the economy of the Scotch in cooking and eating ; and of this he ...
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... thing imitates a Frenchman , but in his easy disengaged air , which is the result of keeping polite company . The Dutchman is vastly ceremo- nious , and is perhaps exactly what a Frenchman might have been in the reign of Louis XIV ...
... thing imitates a Frenchman , but in his easy disengaged air , which is the result of keeping polite company . The Dutchman is vastly ceremo- nious , and is perhaps exactly what a Frenchman might have been in the reign of Louis XIV ...
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... should still have an affection for a place , who never received , when in it , above common civility ; who never brought any thing out of it , except his brogue and his blunders . Surely my affection is XXX LIFE AND WRITINGS.
... should still have an affection for a place , who never received , when in it , above common civility ; who never brought any thing out of it , except his brogue and his blunders . Surely my affection is XXX LIFE AND WRITINGS.
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... things give me real uneasiness , and I could wish to redress them . But at present there is hardly a kingdom in Europe in which I am not a debtor . I have already discharged my most threatening and pressing demands , for we must be just ...
... things give me real uneasiness , and I could wish to redress them . But at present there is hardly a kingdom in Europe in which I am not a debtor . I have already discharged my most threatening and pressing demands , for we must be just ...
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Page liv - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 40 - Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page iii - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart, untravell'd, fondly turns to thee ; Still to my Brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Page xcii - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 152 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Page lxxiii - But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay. And there, forlorn, despairing, hid, I'll lay me down and die: 'Twas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.
Page cvi - BY inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety.
Page lxxix - I'll make Goldsmith forgive me;" and then •called to him in a loud voice, " Dr. Goldsmith, — something passed to-day where you and I dined: I ask your pardon." Goldsmith answered placidly, " It must be much from you, sir, that I take ill.
Page lxxxviii - Ah, no. To distant climes, a dreary scene, Where half the convex world intrudes between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Page 102 - This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children : he called himself their friend; but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted, but he was in haste to be gone; for he was ever on business of the utmost importance, and was at that time actually compiling materials for the history of on