The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith..J. Johnson; W.J. and J. Richardson; W. Otridge and Son; F. and C. Rivington; J. Walker; W. Lowndes; Vernor and Hood; Cuthell and Martin; F. Wingrave; Scatcherd and Letterman; Wilkie and Robinson; R. Lea; Darton and Harvey; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; and J. Matthews., 1806 |
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... taken care not to leave his errors upon record against him , or put it in the power of envy to tax his friend with faults , that do not appear in what he has left to the world . A poet has a right to expect same secrecy in his friend as ...
... taken care not to leave his errors upon record against him , or put it in the power of envy to tax his friend with faults , that do not appear in what he has left to the world . A poet has a right to expect same secrecy in his friend as ...
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... taken that the world should not remain ignorant of the obligation . But in the connexion of wits , interest has gene- rally very little share ; they have only pleasure in view , and can seldom find it but among each other . The ...
... taken that the world should not remain ignorant of the obligation . But in the connexion of wits , interest has gene- rally very little share ; they have only pleasure in view , and can seldom find it but among each other . The ...
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... taken away . During the two or three last years of his life , he was more fond of company than ever , and could scarcely bear to be alone . The death of his wife , it is said , was a loss to him that he was unable to support or recover ...
... taken away . During the two or three last years of his life , he was more fond of company than ever , and could scarcely bear to be alone . The death of his wife , it is said , was a loss to him that he was unable to support or recover ...
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... taken so much pains to involve it into pristine barbarity . These misguided innova- tors have not been content with restoring antiquated words and phrases , but have indulged themselves in the most licentious transpositions , and the ...
... taken so much pains to involve it into pristine barbarity . These misguided innova- tors have not been content with restoring antiquated words and phrases , but have indulged themselves in the most licentious transpositions , and the ...
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... taken from a French poet whose name I forget , and , as far as I am able to judge of the French language , is better than the original . The Anacreonic that follows , " Gay Bac- chus , " & c . is also a translation of a Latin poem , by ...
... taken from a French poet whose name I forget , and , as far as I am able to judge of the French language , is better than the original . The Anacreonic that follows , " Gay Bac- chus , " & c . is also a translation of a Latin poem , by ...
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Page 437 - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger 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 420 - 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 420 - For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 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 420 - 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...
Page 206 - ... 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 weave a new net...
Page 427 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 428 - O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Page 67 - ... beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl. " Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm.
Page 21 - He appears to me to be the last of that great school that had modelled itself upon the ancients, and taught English poetry to resemble what the generality of mankind have allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he set himself to consider nature with the lights it lent him ; and he found that the more aid he borrowed from the one, the more delightfully he resembled the other.
Page 394 - 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.