The life of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1John Murray, 1837 |
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... reasons of this preference pro- bably is , that we are naturally curious about what is more particularly considered the history of Mind ; and in such accounts we are often enabled to trace it in active oper- ation while giving birth to ...
... reasons of this preference pro- bably is , that we are naturally curious about what is more particularly considered the history of Mind ; and in such accounts we are often enabled to trace it in active oper- ation while giving birth to ...
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... reason assigned for these pranks was as fanciful as the story . Being on a rising ground , in a retired part of the country and in the vicinity of water , it was favourable for the resort of the " good people , " or Fairies , during ...
... reason assigned for these pranks was as fanciful as the story . Being on a rising ground , in a retired part of the country and in the vicinity of water , it was favourable for the resort of the " good people , " or Fairies , during ...
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... reason to disbelieve ; the matter is common enough to most school - boys in the country ; and poor Jack knew more of the history of Shakspeare than of Homer . Several other notices of the poet from the same source have now escaped my ...
... reason to disbelieve ; the matter is common enough to most school - boys in the country ; and poor Jack knew more of the history of Shakspeare than of Homer . Several other notices of the poet from the same source have now escaped my ...
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... reason to be pleased with his taste and intelligence . The grandson of this gentleman , the late Dr. O'Connor , librarian at Stowe , in Memoirs of his relative , printed but not published , thus speaks of Mr. Contarine : - " Mr. O ...
... reason to be pleased with his taste and intelligence . The grandson of this gentleman , the late Dr. O'Connor , librarian at Stowe , in Memoirs of his relative , printed but not published , thus speaks of Mr. Contarine : - " Mr. O ...
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... reasons you have given me for breeding up your son a scholar are judicious and convincing . I should however be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed . If he be assiduous and divested of strong passions ( for ...
... reasons you have given me for breeding up your son a scholar are judicious and convincing . I should however be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed . If he be assiduous and divested of strong passions ( for ...
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Page 499 - 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 342 - This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children: he called himself their friend ; but he was the friend of all mankind.
Page 20 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 96 - Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment. Teach, then, my dear sir, to your son thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes.
Page 374 - I fancy, Sir, this is the first time that he has been engaged in such an adventure." JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, I believe it is the first time he has beat; he may have been beaten before. This, Sir, is a new plume to him.
Page 286 - I have been some years struggling with a wretched being, with all that contempt which indigence brings with it, with all those strong passions which make contempt insupportable. What then has a gaol that is formidable ? I shall at least have the society of wretches, and such is to me true society.
Page 299 - I should actually be as unfit for the society of my friends at home, as I detest that which I am obliged to partake of here. I can now neither partake of the pleasure of a revel, nor contribute to raise its jollity. I can neither laugh nor drink; have contracted a hesitating disagreeable manner of speaking, and a visage that looks illnature itself; in short, I have thought myself into a settled melancholy, and an utter disgust of all that life brings with it.
Page 271 - However, it is probable you may one of these days see me turned into a perfect hunks, and as dark and intricate as a mouse-hole. I have already given my landlady orders for an entire reform in the state of my finances. I declaim against hot suppers, drink less sugar in my tea, and check my grate with brick-bats.
Page 120 - Fiddleback, and bade adieu to Cork with only five shillings in my pocket. This, to be sure, was but a scanty allowance for man and horse towards a journey of above a hundred miles ; but I did not despair, for I knew I must find friends on the road. I recollected particularly an old and faithful acquaintance I made at college, who had often and earnestly pressed me to spend a summer with him, and he lived but eight miles from Cork. This circumstance of vicinity he would expatiate on to me with peculiar...
Page 248 - But, now, to be serious: let me ask myself what gives me a wish to see Ireland again. The country is a fine one, perhaps? No. There are good company in Ireland? No. The conversation there is generally made up of a smutty toast or a bawdy song; the vivacity supported by some humble cousin, who had just folly enough to earn his dinner.