The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author : in Two VolumesH. Goldney, 1791 |
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Página viii
... leave Scotland , in confequence of having engaged himself to pay a con- fiderable fum of money for a fellow- ftudent . A few days after , about the beginning of the year 1754 , he arrived at Sunder- land , near Newcastle , where he was ...
... leave Scotland , in confequence of having engaged himself to pay a con- fiderable fum of money for a fellow- ftudent . A few days after , about the beginning of the year 1754 , he arrived at Sunder- land , near Newcastle , where he was ...
Página xvii
... leave himfelf even without a guinea , in order to fupply the neceffities of others . Another feature in his character we cannot help laying before the reader . Previous to the publication of his Defert- ed Village , the bookfeller had ...
... leave himfelf even without a guinea , in order to fupply the neceffities of others . Another feature in his character we cannot help laying before the reader . Previous to the publication of his Defert- ed Village , the bookfeller had ...
Página xxvii
... leave to declare , that in " all my life I never wrote , or dictated , " a fingle paragraph , letter , or essay , in " a news - paper , except a few moral effays , The writer of this note afked Dr. Kenrick how he could bring so infamous ...
... leave to declare , that in " all my life I never wrote , or dictated , " a fingle paragraph , letter , or essay , in " a news - paper , except a few moral effays , The writer of this note afked Dr. Kenrick how he could bring so infamous ...
Página xxxvi
... leaving town , and now return you moft fincere thank for your kind beha- viour to me fince my arrival here . I also am tho- roughly convinced of your care , affiduity , and dili- gence , with refpect to my brother , Dr. Goldfmith . I am ...
... leaving town , and now return you moft fincere thank for your kind beha- viour to me fince my arrival here . I also am tho- roughly convinced of your care , affiduity , and dili- gence , with refpect to my brother , Dr. Goldfmith . I am ...
Página lix
... wind , " And lingering leaves her better half behind . " Can I forget the intercourfe I fhar'd , " What friendship cherish'd , and what zeal endear'd ? " Alas ! " And to my latest hour , protract the long DR . GOLDSMITH . lix.
... wind , " And lingering leaves her better half behind . " Can I forget the intercourfe I fhar'd , " What friendship cherish'd , and what zeal endear'd ? " Alas ! " And to my latest hour , protract the long DR . GOLDSMITH . lix.
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M B Now First Collected ... Oliver Goldsmith Sin vista previa disponible - 2012 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 51 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 68 - Yes, let the rich deride, the proud disdain. These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art.
Página 61 - Where wealth, accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 59 - 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 66 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Página 104 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Página 42 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal : But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
Página 67 - Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. Near yonder thorn that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired.
Página 66 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 63 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work...