The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Life. Vicar of Wakefield. Essays. LettersG. Bell and sons, 1885 |
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... seemed always to do that best on which for the time he happened to be engaged . Two other compilation works done by Goldsmith for Newbery about this time were , ' The Art of Poetry , ' 2 vols . , 12mo ( a reprint ) , and ' A Poetical ...
... seemed always to do that best on which for the time he happened to be engaged . Two other compilation works done by Goldsmith for Newbery about this time were , ' The Art of Poetry , ' 2 vols . , 12mo ( a reprint ) , and ' A Poetical ...
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... seemed to vex poor Goldsmith , who begged Mr. Burke would tell him how he had had the misfortune to offend him . Burke appeared very re- luctant to speak , but , after good deal of pressing , said , ' that he was really ashamed to keep ...
... seemed to vex poor Goldsmith , who begged Mr. Burke would tell him how he had had the misfortune to offend him . Burke appeared very re- luctant to speak , but , after good deal of pressing , said , ' that he was really ashamed to keep ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... seemed to increase their passion . We were generally awaked in the morning by music , and on fine days rode a - hunting . The hours between break- fast and dinner the ladies devoted to dress and study : they usually read a page , and ...
... seemed to increase their passion . We were generally awaked in the morning by music , and on fine days rode a - hunting . The hours between break- fast and dinner the ladies devoted to dress and study : they usually read a page , and ...
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... seemed before sufficiently inclined to break off the match , was by this blow soon determined : one virtue he had in perfection , which was prudence , too often the only one that is left us at seventy - two . A MIGRATION . CHAPTER III ...
... seemed before sufficiently inclined to break off the match , was by this blow soon determined : one virtue he had in perfection , which was prudence , too often the only one that is left us at seventy - two . A MIGRATION . CHAPTER III ...
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Page 365 - 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 71 - I WAS ever of opinion that the honest man, who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Page 366 - 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 20 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Page 343 - 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 183 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 45 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.