The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductionsPutnam, 1856 |
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... never more to be indulged with a favorable hearing , is left to condemn the indelicacy of his own address , or their want of discernment . · [ " as from the flow'ry field Th ' industrious bee culls honey , we alike Cull many a golden ...
... never more to be indulged with a favorable hearing , is left to condemn the indelicacy of his own address , or their want of discernment . · [ " as from the flow'ry field Th ' industrious bee culls honey , we alike Cull many a golden ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. For my part , as I was never distinguished for address , and have often even blundered in making my bow , such bodings as these had like to have totally repressed my ambition . I was at a loss whether to give the public ...
Oliver Goldsmith. For my part , as I was never distinguished for address , and have often even blundered in making my bow , such bodings as these had like to have totally repressed my ambition . I was at a loss whether to give the public ...
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... never so general there as with us . They study there the happy method of uniting grace and fashion , and never excuse a woman for being awkwardly dressed , by saying her clothes are made in the mode . A French woman is a perfect ...
... never so general there as with us . They study there the happy method of uniting grace and fashion , and never excuse a woman for being awkwardly dressed , by saying her clothes are made in the mode . A French woman is a perfect ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. ignorance , mixes the orders ; she never tricks out a squabby Doric shape with Corinthian finery ; or , to speak without meta- phor , she conforms to general fashion , only when it happens not to be repugnant to private ...
Oliver Goldsmith. ignorance , mixes the orders ; she never tricks out a squabby Doric shape with Corinthian finery ; or , to speak without meta- phor , she conforms to general fashion , only when it happens not to be repugnant to private ...
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... never get you to dress like a Christian . I knew we should have the eyes of the Park upon us , with your great wig so frizzed , and yet so beggarly , and your monstrous muff . I hate those odious muffs . " I could have patiently borne a ...
... never get you to dress like a Christian . I knew we should have the eyes of the Park upon us , with your great wig so frizzed , and yet so beggarly , and your monstrous muff . I hate those odious muffs . " I could have patiently borne a ...
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Page 324 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page ix - 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 306 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin?
Page 329 - 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 306 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer 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 ; 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 280 - 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 379 - If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught, not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic.
Page 306 - 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 78 - 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.
Page 306 - With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death — That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns! — puzzles the will; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of.