The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 3J. Murray, 1854 |
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... less reserved than here ; they may be seen through upon a first acquaintance : such are the proper models to draw from ; they are at once striking , and are found in great abundance . Though it would be inexcusable in a comedian to add ...
... less reserved than here ; they may be seen through upon a first acquaintance : such are the proper models to draw from ; they are at once striking , and are found in great abundance . Though it would be inexcusable in a comedian to add ...
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... less delicate ; which is a circumstance different from that of almost every other country . Besides this , it is observed that the women are generally afflicted with the itch , for which Scania is 26 NO . II . THE BEE .
... less delicate ; which is a circumstance different from that of almost every other country . Besides this , it is observed that the women are generally afflicted with the itch , for which Scania is 26 NO . II . THE BEE .
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... less value , a shirt of coarse linen , large boots , and buff gloves made to cover a great part of the arm . His saddle , his pistols , and his sword , have nothing in them remarkable ; the meanest soldier was , in this respect , no way ...
... less value , a shirt of coarse linen , large boots , and buff gloves made to cover a great part of the arm . His saddle , his pistols , and his sword , have nothing in them remarkable ; the meanest soldier was , in this respect , no way ...
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... less astonishing . He has sometimes been on horseback for four - and - twenty hours successively , and thus traversed the greatest part of his kingdom . At last , none of his officers were found capable of following him ; he thus ...
... less astonishing . He has sometimes been on horseback for four - and - twenty hours successively , and thus traversed the greatest part of his kingdom . At last , none of his officers were found capable of following him ; he thus ...
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... less surprised than they at his unpremeditated disobedience . His astonishment , however , was soon dissipated by the king , who taking him by the hand , assured him he was a brave fellow , and himself would take care he should be pro ...
... less surprised than they at his unpremeditated disobedience . His astonishment , however , was soon dissipated by the king , who taking him by the hand , assured him he was a brave fellow , and himself would take care he should be pro ...
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Page 68 - GOOD people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word— From those who spoke her praise. The needy seldom pass'd her door, And always found her kind; She freely lent to all the poor— Who left a pledge behind. She strove the neighbourhood to please With manners wondrous winning; And never follow'd wicked ways— Unless when she was sinning.
Page 282 - 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 276 - 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 272 - 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 233 - ... a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life; but that was not my chance : one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God ! I enjoy good health, and have no enemy in this world, that I know of, but the French and the justice of peace.
Page 61 - ... 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 62 - The insect I am now describing lived three years.; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand, and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack.
Page 297 - Nor is this rule without the strongest foundation in nature, as the distresses of the mean by no means affect us so strongly as the calamities of the great. When tragedy exhibits to us some great man fallen from his height, and struggling with want and adversity, we feel his situation in the same manner as we suppose he himself must feel, and our pity is increased in proportion to the height from which he fell.
Page 316 - ... whence happiness or calamity is derived, and whence it may be expected; and honestly to lay before the people what inquiry can gather of the past, and conjecture can estimate of the future.
Page 149 - The music of the finest singer is dissonance to what I felt when our old dairy-maid sung me into tears with Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night, or the Cruelty of Barbara Allen.