The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver GoldsmithMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1869 - 695 pages |
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... PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING . Chap . Introduction p . 419 1. The Causes which contribute to the Decline of Learning . P. 419 11. A View of the Obscure Ages P. 423 III . Of the present State of Polite Learning in Italy P. 424 IV ...
... PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING . Chap . Introduction p . 419 1. The Causes which contribute to the Decline of Learning . P. 419 11. A View of the Obscure Ages P. 423 III . Of the present State of Polite Learning in Italy P. 424 IV ...
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... PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING . Chap . Introduction . P. 419 1. The Causes which contribute to the Decline of Learning . P. 419 11. A View of the Obscure Ages P. 423 III . Of the present State of Polite Learning in Italy P. 424 IV ...
... PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING . Chap . Introduction . P. 419 1. The Causes which contribute to the Decline of Learning . P. 419 11. A View of the Obscure Ages P. 423 III . Of the present State of Polite Learning in Italy P. 424 IV ...
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... present volume is a collection . Even in the present volume there are some small things that must be regarded as mere com- pilations , and may serve as minor specimens of Goldsmith in that line the wretched shred called a Life of ...
... present volume is a collection . Even in the present volume there are some small things that must be regarded as mere com- pilations , and may serve as minor specimens of Goldsmith in that line the wretched shred called a Life of ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. ever . At present , his bounties are more rational and moderate than before ; but still he preserves the character of an hu- morist , and finds most pleasure in eccen- tric virtues . " reputation among men of learning ...
Oliver Goldsmith. ever . At present , his bounties are more rational and moderate than before ; but still he preserves the character of an hu- morist , and finds most pleasure in eccen- tric virtues . " reputation among men of learning ...
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... present pleaded more powerfully in his favour than anything I had to say could obviate . I therefore continued silent , satisfied with just having pointed out danger , and leaving it to their own discre- tion to avoid it . That virtue ...
... present pleaded more powerfully in his favour than anything I had to say could obviate . I therefore continued silent , satisfied with just having pointed out danger , and leaving it to their own discre- tion to avoid it . That virtue ...
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Page 582 - Hoards, e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth, His seat, where solitary sports are...
Page 583 - And, pinch' d with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 580 - Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 582 - These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart. One native charm, than all the gloss of art; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind,' Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, e'en while fashion's...
Page 577 - 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...
Page 580 - Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With...
Page 594 - 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. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.
Page x - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too...
Page 328 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Page 569 - E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And plac'd on high above the storm's career, Look downward where an hundred realms appear ; Lakes, forests, cities, plains extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thus Creation's charms around combine, Amidst the store should thankless pride repine?