The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 4Galignani & Didot, 1825 |
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... poet , who was his eldest son , and still remain in the family . Thus want , which has compelled many of our greatest men into the service of the muses , had no influence upon Parnell ; he was a poet by inclination . He was born in ...
... poet , who was his eldest son , and still remain in the family . Thus want , which has compelled many of our greatest men into the service of the muses , had no influence upon Parnell ; he was a poet by inclination . He was born in ...
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... poet . Some dates , and some few facts scarcely more interesting than those that make the ornaments of a country tomb- stone , are all that remain of one , whose labours now begin to excite universal curiosity . A poet , while living ...
... poet . Some dates , and some few facts scarcely more interesting than those that make the ornaments of a country tomb- stone , are all that remain of one , whose labours now begin to excite universal curiosity . A poet , while living ...
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... poets and commentators who have gone before me , but be damn'd myself by all who To be serious ; you have not only left me impatient for your return , who at all come after me . to the last degree times should have been so ( though ...
... poets and commentators who have gone before me , but be damn'd myself by all who To be serious ; you have not only left me impatient for your return , who at all come after me . to the last degree times should have been so ( though ...
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... poet , but a plain commoner , who lives upon his own , and fears and flatters no man . I hope before I die to discharge the debt I owe to Homer , and get upon the whole just fame enough to serve for an annuity for my own time , though I ...
... poet , but a plain commoner , who lives upon his own , and fears and flatters no man . I hope before I die to discharge the debt I owe to Homer , and get upon the whole just fame enough to serve for an annuity for my own time , though I ...
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... poet ) was very considerable , and it may easily be supposed he lived to the very extent of it . The fact is , his expenses were greater than his income , and his successor found the estate somewhat impaired at his decease . As soon as ...
... poet ) was very considerable , and it may easily be supposed he lived to the very extent of it . The fact is , his expenses were greater than his income , and his successor found the estate somewhat impaired at his decease . As soon as ...
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Page 374 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make 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?
Page 374 - And by opposing end them ? — To die — to sleep — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. 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 374 - 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; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.
Page 9 - For him thou oft hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in the friend; For Swift and him despis'd the farce of state, The sober follies of the wise and great; Dext'rous the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And pleas'd to 'scape from flattery to wit.
Page 382 - 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 364 - He spake ; and, to confirm his words, out flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Page 346 - 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.
Page 393 - 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 70 - ... 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 rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm.
Page 156 - ... which was completed in the usual time. I had now a mind to try how many cobwebs a single spider could furnish ; wherefore 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...