The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1835 |
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... admired poets had copied nature . From these they collected dry rules , dignified with long names , and such were obtruded upon the public for their improvement . Common sense would be apt to suggest , that the art might be studied to ...
... admired poets had copied nature . From these they collected dry rules , dignified with long names , and such were obtruded upon the public for their improvement . Common sense would be apt to suggest , that the art might be studied to ...
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... admiration . In exercises of this kind , the most stupid are generally most successful ; for there is not in nature a more imitative animal than a dunce . Hence ancient learning may be distinguished into three periods . Its commencement ...
... admiration . In exercises of this kind , the most stupid are generally most successful ; for there is not in nature a more imitative animal than a dunce . Hence ancient learning may be distinguished into three periods . Its commencement ...
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... admiration . As if the word had been given , when Vida and Tasso wrote on the arts of poetry , the whole swarm of critics was up . The Speronis of the age attempted to be awkwardly merry ; and the Virtuosi and the Nascotti sat upon the ...
... admiration . As if the word had been given , when Vida and Tasso wrote on the arts of poetry , the whole swarm of critics was up . The Speronis of the age attempted to be awkwardly merry ; and the Virtuosi and the Nascotti sat upon the ...
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... admiration : though wanting the head and the other extremities , if dug from a ruin , the Torse becomes inestimable . An unintelligible monument of Etruscan barbarity cannot be sufficiently prized ; and any thing from Herculaneum ...
... admiration : though wanting the head and the other extremities , if dug from a ruin , the Torse becomes inestimable . An unintelligible monument of Etruscan barbarity cannot be sufficiently prized ; and any thing from Herculaneum ...
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... admiration . In this light , though poverty and contemptuous neglect are all the wages of his good will from mankind , yet the rectitude of his intention is an ample recompense ; and self - applause for the present , and the alluring ...
... admiration . In this light , though poverty and contemptuous neglect are all the wages of his good will from mankind , yet the rectitude of his intention is an ample recompense ; and self - applause for the present , and the alluring ...
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absurdity acquainted admiration agreeable amusement antiquity appeared Aristotle attempts Ballymahon beauty character contempt continue criticism David Mallet Dr Johnson Duke of Ormond Earl of Mar eloquence endeavour enemy England English excellence expect fame favour fortune France French friends friendship genius give Goldsmith hand happiness honour humour imagination imitation Jacobite King labour lady language laws letters literary lived Lord Bolingbroke Lysippus mankind manner MDCCLXXI means merit mind never object obliged observed occasion Oliver Goldsmith once Parnell party passion perceive perhaps person philosopher pleasing pleasure poem poet poetry polite learning Pope possessed praise present Pretender profession proper reader regard reputation ridiculous scarcely Scotland seems seldom serve shew society soon sufficient supposed taste thing THOMAS PARNELL thought tion trifling truth virtue Voltaire vulgar Whigs whole writer written Zoilus
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Page 318 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules...
Page 319 - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Page 58 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY: His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Page 114 - ... pity. Some are without the covering even of rags, and others emaciated with disease ; the world has disclaimed them ; society turns its back upon their distress, and has given them up to nakedness and hunger.
Page 37 - 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 bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant as to agonise under the slightest disappointment.
Page 319 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Page 110 - The insect I am now describing lived three years ; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared cither for a defence or an attack.
Page 114 - How few appear in those streets which but some few hours ago were crowded; and those who appear now no longer wear their daily mask, nor attempt to hide their lewdness or their misery. But who are those who make the streets their couch, and find a short repose from wretchedness at...
Page 114 - Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! Poor houseless creatures ! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.
Page 242 - 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 200£ to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm...