 Above all things, let him never touch a romance or novel ; these paint beauty in colours more charming than nature, and describe happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful...  The American Journal of Education - Page 353edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1801 - 424 pages
...blifs. They teach the youthful mind to figh after beauty and happinefs which never exifled ; to defpife the little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than fhe ever gave ; and in general, . take the word of a man who has feen the world, and has fludied human... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1805 - 432 pages
...beauty in colours more charming than nature; and describe happiness that man never tastes. Howdelusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss...by experience than precept ; take my word for it, I say, that such books teach us very little of the world." Life of Goldsmith, prefixed to his Miscellaneous... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pages
...happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive, are those pictures of consummate bliss! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty...by experience than precept ; take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only... | |
 | 1809 - 612 pages
...happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty...existed ; to despise the little good which fortune lias mixed in our cup< by expecting more than she ever gave ; and, in general, take the word ota man... | |
 | John Witherspoon - 1817 - 92 pages
...happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive, are those pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty...by experience than precept, take my word for it, I say, that such books teach us very little of the world." The heart at thirty is by no means the softer,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty...by experience than precept ; take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! They teach the youthful mind to sigh afler olomon Flamborough in my part of the country 1 Upon...¿nil have a draft upon him, payable at sight; and lit say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 572 pages
...happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty...experience than precept — take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty...experience than precept — take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit in a state of poverty would only... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty...and has studied human nature more by experience than precept—take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world. The greatest merit... | |
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