The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.W. Durell; J. Seymour, printer, 1809 |
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... ideas : their ears and shoulders taught their souls to shrink back into servitude , from which they had for some moments fancied themselves disengaged . The enthusiasm of liberty an Englishman feels is never so strong , as when ...
... ideas : their ears and shoulders taught their souls to shrink back into servitude , from which they had for some moments fancied themselves disengaged . The enthusiasm of liberty an Englishman feels is never so strong , as when ...
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... ideas of false gran-- deur , and measuring merit by adventitious circum- stances of greatness , they generally communicate those fatal prejudices to their pupils , confirm their pride by adulation , or increase their ignorance by ...
... ideas of false gran-- deur , and measuring merit by adventitious circum- stances of greatness , they generally communicate those fatal prejudices to their pupils , confirm their pride by adulation , or increase their ignorance by ...
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... idea of the poet . Her hands are not alternately stretched out , and then drawn in again , as with the singing women at Sadler's Wells ; they are employed with graceful variety , and every moment pleases with new and unexpected elo ...
... idea of the poet . Her hands are not alternately stretched out , and then drawn in again , as with the singing women at Sadler's Wells ; they are employed with graceful variety , and every moment pleases with new and unexpected elo ...
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... ideas of mankind from study alone , generally comes into the world with an heart melting at every fictitious distress . Thus he is induced , by misplaced liberality , to put himself into the indigent circumstances of the person he re ...
... ideas of mankind from study alone , generally comes into the world with an heart melting at every fictitious distress . Thus he is induced , by misplaced liberality , to put himself into the indigent circumstances of the person he re ...
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... idea with all our notions of frugality , the person who would persuade us to it , might be accused of preaching up avarice . Of all vices , however , against which morality dis- suades , there is not one more undetermined than this of ...
... idea with all our notions of frugality , the person who would persuade us to it , might be accused of preaching up avarice . Of all vices , however , against which morality dis- suades , there is not one more undetermined than this of ...
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Page 281 - 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 281 - 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 69 - I destroyed this, and the insect set about another. When I destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together, but cautiously watching all the time ; when a fly happened to approach sufficiently near, it would dart out all at once, and often seize its prey.
Page 298 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's...
Page 281 - The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more...
Page 90 - This was a very grave personage, whom at some distance I took for one of the most reserved, and even disagreeable, figures I had seen ; but as he approached his appearance improved, and when I could distinguish him thoroughly, I perceived that, in spite of the severity of his brow, he had one of the most good-natured countenances that could be imagined.
Page 281 - No traveller returns! — puzzles the will; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of.
Page 68 - Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost impatience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute...
Page 66 - ... nature for a state of war, not only upon other insects, but upon each other. For this state nature seems perfectly well to have formed it. Its head and breast are covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin, which eludes the sting even of a wasp.
Page 68 - In three days the web was with incredible diligence completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode. It frequently traversed it round, examined the strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and came out very frequently.