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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... merits of your pencil - he chofe a nobler theme , by declaring his ardent affection for the virtues of your heart . That you may long continue , Sir , the ornament of your country , and the delight of your friends , is the fincere wish ...
... merits of your pencil - he chofe a nobler theme , by declaring his ardent affection for the virtues of your heart . That you may long continue , Sir , the ornament of your country , and the delight of your friends , is the fincere wish ...
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... merit which he difcovered in criticifing a despicable tranflation of Ovid's Fafi by a pedantic fchool- mafter , and his Enquiry into the Prefent State of Learning in Europe , which first introduced him to the acquaintance of Dr. Smollet ...
... merit which he difcovered in criticifing a despicable tranflation of Ovid's Fafi by a pedantic fchool- mafter , and his Enquiry into the Prefent State of Learning in Europe , which first introduced him to the acquaintance of Dr. Smollet ...
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... merit of his productions , made his company very ac- ceptable to a number of respectable per- fons ; and , about the middle of the year 1762 , he emerged from his mean apart- ments near the Old Bailey to the politer air of the Temple ...
... merit of his productions , made his company very ac- ceptable to a number of respectable per- fons ; and , about the middle of the year 1762 , he emerged from his mean apart- ments near the Old Bailey to the politer air of the Temple ...
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... merit , it rofe to public notice and it is now the ton to go to fee it ; though I never saw a perfon that either liked it or approved it , any more than the abfurd plot of the Home's tragedy of Alonzo . Mr Goldfmith , correct your ...
... merit , it rofe to public notice and it is now the ton to go to fee it ; though I never saw a perfon that either liked it or approved it , any more than the abfurd plot of the Home's tragedy of Alonzo . Mr Goldfmith , correct your ...
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... merit . He was a ftudious and correct obferver of nature , happy in the felection of his images , in the choice of his fubjects , and in the harmony of his verfification ; and , though his embarraff- ed ed fituation prevented him from ...
... merit . He was a ftudious and correct obferver of nature , happy in the felection of his images , in the choice of his fubjects , and in the harmony of his verfification ; and , though his embarraff- ed ed fituation prevented him from ...
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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...