The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volumen3G. P Putnam, 1854 |
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... XVI . The family use art , which is opposed with still greater CHAPTER XVII . Scarcely any virtue found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation 36 91 96 CHAPTER XVIII . The pursuit of a father to reclaim vi CONTENTS .
... XVI . The family use art , which is opposed with still greater CHAPTER XVII . Scarcely any virtue found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation 36 91 96 CHAPTER XVIII . The pursuit of a father to reclaim vi CONTENTS .
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... father to reclaim a lost child to virtue CHAPTER XIX . The description of a person discontented with the present government , and apprehensive of the loss of our liberties CHAPTER XX . The history of a philosophic vagabond , pursuing ...
... father to reclaim a lost child to virtue CHAPTER XIX . The description of a person discontented with the present government , and apprehensive of the loss of our liberties CHAPTER XX . The history of a philosophic vagabond , pursuing ...
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... father , a master , and a cultivator ; and by the union of these characters , a true member of society . On these worldly , but pure and noble foundations , his higher vocations rest . To him belongs the privilege of guiding men in the ...
... father , a master , and a cultivator ; and by the union of these characters , a true member of society . On these worldly , but pure and noble foundations , his higher vocations rest . To him belongs the privilege of guiding men in the ...
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... father of a family . He is drawn as ready to teach and ready to obey ; as simple in affluence , and majestic in adversity . In this age of opulence and refinement , whom can such a character please ? Such as are fond of high life , will ...
... father of a family . He is drawn as ready to teach and ready to obey ; as simple in affluence , and majestic in adversity . In this age of opulence and refinement , whom can such a character please ? Such as are fond of high life , will ...
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... father would represent it . We are not to judge of the feelings of others by what we might feel in their place . However dark the habitation of the mole to our eyes , yet the animal itself finds the apart ment sufficiently lightsome ...
... father would represent it . We are not to judge of the feelings of others by what we might feel in their place . However dark the habitation of the mole to our eyes , yet the animal itself finds the apart ment sufficiently lightsome ...
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acquaintance amusement appeared Bath beauty began Bolingbroke Burchell Cardinal Fleury character continued conversation cried daughter David Mallet dear Duchess of Marlborough endeavored enemies England entertainment expected father favor Flamborough fortune friends friendship gamester gave genius gentleman girls give happy heart honor hope Jenkinson king ladies letter lived Livy look Lord Lord Bolingbroke madam manner means merit mind mistress Montesquieu morning Moses Nash nature never obliged observed occasion OLIVER GOLDSMITH Olivia once Parnell passion perceived perhaps person pleased pleasure poet poor Pope pounds present Pretender prison proper received replied resolved returned RICHARD NASH scarcely Scotland seemed Sir William soon Squire thing THOMAS PARNELL Thornhill thou thought tion took treaty of Utrecht trifling Tunbridge Vicar of Wakefield virtue Voltaire Whigs whole wife wretched write young
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Página 150 - 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.
Página 53 - Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they ; "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep...
Página 19 - 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.
Página 75 - I have laid it all out in a bargain, and here it is," pulling out a bundle from his breast; "here they are: a gross of green spectacles with silver rims and shagreen cases.
Página 35 - I gave laws, was regulated in the following manner : By sunrise we all assembled in our common apartment, the fire being previously kindled by the servant ; after we had saluted each other with proper ceremony, (for I always thought fit to keep up some mechanical forms of good breeding, without which, freedom ever destroys friendship,) we all bent in gratitude to that Being who gave us another day.
Página 129 - I passed among the harmless peasants of Flanders, and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry ; for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards night-fall, I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day.
Página 100 - The wound it seem'd both sore and sad To every Christian eye ; And while they swore the dog was mad, They swore the man would die. But soon a wonder came to light, That show'd the rogues they lied, The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.
Página 131 - However, my skill in music could avail me nothing in a country where every peasant was a better musician than I : but by this time I had acquired another talent, which answered my purpose as well, and this was a skill in disputation. In all the foreign universities and convents there are, upon certain days, philosophical theses maintained against every adventitious disputant ; for which, if the champion opposes with any dexterity, he can claim a gratuity in money, a dinner, and a bed for one night.
Página 56 - Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restor'd to love and thee. ' Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign : And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine ? ' No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true : The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's...
Página xi - The admirable ease and grace of the narrative, as well as the pleasing truth with which the principal characters are designed, make the ' Vicar of Wakefield ' one of the most delicious morsels of fictitious composition on which the human mind was ever employed.