The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 2Thomas Tegg, 1835 |
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... Miss Wilmot , and the gallant avenger of his sister's wrongs . The other characters are happily conceived , and admirably supported . The eccentric eharacter of Mr Burchell is not perhaps to be found in nature ; but it is not so far ...
... Miss Wilmot , and the gallant avenger of his sister's wrongs . The other characters are happily conceived , and admirably supported . The eccentric eharacter of Mr Burchell is not perhaps to be found in nature ; but it is not so far ...
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... Miss Arabella Wilmot was allowed by all ( except my two daughters ) to be completely pretty . Her youth , health , and innocence , were still heightened by a complexion so transparent , and such a happy sensibility of look , as even age ...
... Miss Arabella Wilmot was allowed by all ( except my two daughters ) to be completely pretty . Her youth , health , and innocence , were still heightened by a complexion so transparent , and such a happy sensibility of look , as even age ...
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... Miss Wrinklers should marry great fortunes , and her children get none . As this last argument was directed to me , I protested I could see no reason for it either , nor why Mr Simpkins got the ten thousand pound prize in the lottery ...
... Miss Wrinklers should marry great fortunes , and her children get none . As this last argument was directed to me , I protested I could see no reason for it either , nor why Mr Simpkins got the ten thousand pound prize in the lottery ...
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... Miss Wilmot , my son George's former mistress , this a good deal damped the heartiness of his reception : but accident in some measure relieved our embarrassment ; for one of the company happening to mention her name , Mr Thornhill ...
... Miss Wilmot , my son George's former mistress , this a good deal damped the heartiness of his reception : but accident in some measure relieved our embarrassment ; for one of the company happening to mention her name , Mr Thornhill ...
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... Miss Sophia's hand as a partner . " To this my girl replied , that she should have no objection , if she could do it with honour ; " But here , " con- tinued she , " is a gentleman , " looking at Mr Burchell , " who has been my ...
... Miss Sophia's hand as a partner . " To this my girl replied , that she should have no objection , if she could do it with honour ; " But here , " con- tinued she , " is a gentleman , " looking at Mr Burchell , " who has been my ...
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Page 272 - 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...
Page 257 - s the respect That makes calamity of so long life ; 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...
Page 257 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 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...
Page 257 - 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?
Page 32 - The crackling faggot flies. But nothing could a charm impart To soothe the stranger's woe; For grief was heavy at his heart, And tears began to flow. His rising cares the Hermit spied, With answering care opprest :
Page 32 - Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay: And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. "And what is friendship...
Page 69 - As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man.
Page 263 - 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...
Page 34 - Twas Edwin's self that pressed ! "Turn, Angelina, ever- dear. My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee. "Thus let me hold thee to my heart; And every care resign : And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine ? " No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true, The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Page 34 - 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.