The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volumen2J. Murray, 1837 |
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... honour of a festival day to their gods , and join in the general revelry ; the invitation is scornfully declined . The second act continues the attempt of the Chaldeans to persuade the Jews to join in their worship , when the chief ...
... honour of a festival day to their gods , and join in the general revelry ; the invitation is scornfully declined . The second act continues the attempt of the Chaldeans to persuade the Jews to join in their worship , when the chief ...
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... honours . The great masters who had charmed the preceding age had passed away , away , and none of equal powers had arisen to take their place . Young was advanced in life and expired a few months afterwards ; Gray was indolent and ...
... honours . The great masters who had charmed the preceding age had passed away , away , and none of equal powers had arisen to take their place . Young was advanced in life and expired a few months afterwards ; Gray was indolent and ...
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... honours of originality . But it is in the execution of such things we must seek for the merit that gives them popular favour ; to do this well requires poetical powers of a high order , good taste , a philosophical spirit of observation ...
... honours of originality . But it is in the execution of such things we must seek for the merit that gives them popular favour ; to do this well requires poetical powers of a high order , good taste , a philosophical spirit of observation ...
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... honour to English genius than this . There is in it a strain of political thinking that was , at that time , new in our poetry . Had the harmony of this been equal to Pope's versification , it would be incontestably the finest poem in ...
... honour to English genius than this . There is in it a strain of political thinking that was , at that time , new in our poetry . Had the harmony of this been equal to Pope's versification , it would be incontestably the finest poem in ...
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... honour sinks where commerce long prevails . " While nought remain'd of all that riches gave , But towns unmann'd , and lords without a slave . " The self - dependent lordlings stand alone , All claims that bind and sweeten life unknown ...
... honour sinks where commerce long prevails . " While nought remain'd of all that riches gave , But towns unmann'd , and lords without a slave . " The self - dependent lordlings stand alone , All claims that bind and sweeten life unknown ...
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Página 263 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Página 244 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Página 274 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain : Teach him, that states of native strength...
Página 266 - Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school...
Página 30 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Página 81 - Twas Edwin's self that prest ! " Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored 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, Well live and love so true ; The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Página 113 - THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Página 205 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
Página 313 - But, hang it ! to poets who seldom can eat Your very good mutton's a very good treat ; Such dainties to them their health it might hurt ; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Página 168 - With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious bard, without complaint, may share This bustling season's epidemic care, Like...