The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, including a variety of pieces now first collected by J. Prior, Volume 11837 |
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... observation as far as it will go , should the labours of a writer who designs his performances for readers of a more refined appetite , fall into the hands of a devourer of compilations , what can he expect but contempt and confusion ...
... observation as far as it will go , should the labours of a writer who designs his performances for readers of a more refined appetite , fall into the hands of a devourer of compilations , what can he expect but contempt and confusion ...
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... observations upon our theatres and actors , with- out , on this trivial occasion , throwing my thoughts into the formality of method . There is something in the deportment of all our players infinitely more stiff and formal than among ...
... observations upon our theatres and actors , with- out , on this trivial occasion , throwing my thoughts into the formality of method . There is something in the deportment of all our players infinitely more stiff and formal than among ...
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... observed elsewhere , and for my part I could wish to see it observed at home . I can never conceive a hero dying for love of a lady totally destitute of beauty . I must think the part unnatural ; for I cannot bear to hear him call that ...
... observed elsewhere , and for my part I could wish to see it observed at home . I can never conceive a hero dying for love of a lady totally destitute of beauty . I must think the part unnatural ; for I cannot bear to hear him call that ...
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... observe , that there are no ladies in the world more beautiful , or more ill - dressed than those of England . Our country women have been compared to those pictures , where the face is the work of a Raphael ; but the draperies thrown ...
... observe , that there are no ladies in the world more beautiful , or more ill - dressed than those of England . Our country women have been compared to those pictures , where the face is the work of a Raphael ; but the draperies thrown ...
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... observation gave her spirits to pursue the bent of her inclination , and now she began to exhibit her skill in secret history , as she found me disposed to listen . " Observe , " says she to me , " that old woman in tawdry silk , and ...
... observation gave her spirits to pursue the bent of her inclination , and now she began to exhibit her skill in secret history , as she found me disposed to listen . " Observe , " says she to me , " that old woman in tawdry silk , and ...
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Page 298 - 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 298 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page iii - 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.
Page 298 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Page 298 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 321 - 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.
Page 272 - 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. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 549 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Page 269 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Page 305 - 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...