The life and adventures of Oliver GoldsmithBradbury & Evans, 1848 - 704 pages |
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... Means for his outfit • · 111 Leaves Peckham 112 • 113 . . 114 . 116 117 The ordinary fate of Authors . 120 Despair in the garret 121 Starving in the streets where Butler starved 122 . 173 Letter to Mrs. Lauder 123 Appointed Medical ...
... Means for his outfit • · 111 Leaves Peckham 112 • 113 . . 114 . 116 117 The ordinary fate of Authors . 120 Despair in the garret 121 Starving in the streets where Butler starved 122 . 173 Letter to Mrs. Lauder 123 Appointed Medical ...
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... mean to get hand- ' some again ? ' Oliver moved in silence to the window . The speaker , a thoughtless and notorious scapegrace of the Goldsmith family , repeated the question with a worse sneer and ' I mean to get better , sir , when ...
... mean to get hand- ' some again ? ' Oliver moved in silence to the window . The speaker , a thoughtless and notorious scapegrace of the Goldsmith family , repeated the question with a worse sneer and ' I mean to get better , sir , when ...
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... means , at the fireside of his good - hearted father , of turning these childish rebuffs to something of a wholesome discipline ? Alas ! little . There was little of worldly wisdom in the home circle of the kind but simple preacher , to ...
... means , at the fireside of his good - hearted father , of turning these childish rebuffs to something of a wholesome discipline ? Alas ! little . There was little of worldly wisdom in the home circle of the kind but simple preacher , to ...
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... means , though very far from considerable , to do justice to his kindly impulses . In youth he had been the college com- panion of Bishop Berkeley , and was worthy to have had so divine a friend . He , too , was a 1728 to 1757. ] 15 ...
... means , though very far from considerable , to do justice to his kindly impulses . In youth he had been the college com- panion of Bishop Berkeley , and was worthy to have had so divine a friend . He , too , was a 1728 to 1757. ] 15 ...
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... means , from uncle Contarine , by petty loans from Bryanton and Beatty , or by desperate pawning of his books of study , was Goldsmith's lot thenceforward . Yet even in the depths of that despair , arose the consciousness of faculties ...
... means , from uncle Contarine , by petty loans from Bryanton and Beatty , or by desperate pawning of his books of study , was Goldsmith's lot thenceforward . Yet even in the depths of that despair , arose the consciousness of faculties ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards amusing appeared Arthur Murphy Ballymahon Beauclerc Bennet Langton Bishop Percy bookseller Boswell brother Bryanton Burke called character cheerful claims Club Colman comedy Covent Garden criticism dear dinner Doctor Goldsmith doubt Dunciad Edgeworthstown Edmund Burke fame fortune garret Garrick genius Gerrard Street give Green Arbour Court Griffiths guineas habit hand happy Hawkins heart History honour hope Horace Walpole humble humour Irish Johnson kind labour lady Langton laughed less letter literary literature lived London Lord Lord Charlemont Magazine manner months nature never Newbery Newbery's night Oliver Goldsmith passed Percy perhaps play poem poet Polite Learning poor pounds poverty present published remark Reynolds Samuel Johnson says seems sizar Smollett Street talk tell Temple theatre things thought tion told truth turned Vicar of Wakefield Voltaire Walpole writing written wrote young
Popular passages
Page 188 - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 543 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 473 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven...
Page 540 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 472 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Page 585 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and...
Page 54 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Page 65 - I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys...
Page 543 - Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure, scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ! Sure, these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts?
Page 541 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear...