The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver GoldsmithMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1869 - 695 pages |
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... Scarcely any Virtue found to resist the Power of long and pleasing Tempta- • tion p . 34 XVIII . The Pursuit of a Father to reclaim a Lost Child to Virtue p . 37 XIX . The Description of a Person discontented with the present Government ...
... Scarcely any Virtue found to resist the Power of long and pleasing Tempta- • tion p . 34 XVIII . The Pursuit of a Father to reclaim a Lost Child to Virtue p . 37 XIX . The Description of a Person discontented with the present Government ...
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... scarcely can conceive how much eight years of ' disappointment , anguish , and study , have worn me down . If I remember right , ' you are seven or eight years older than me ; yet I dare venture to say that , if a1 ' stranger saw us ...
... scarcely can conceive how much eight years of ' disappointment , anguish , and study , have worn me down . If I remember right , ' you are seven or eight years older than me ; yet I dare venture to say that , if a1 ' stranger saw us ...
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... scarcely done an earthly thing for this month past . They are both grown fat and lazy . Why should not they do something as well as we ? And let me tell you , when Moses has trimmed them a little , they will cut a very tolerable figure ...
... scarcely done an earthly thing for this month past . They are both grown fat and lazy . Why should not they do something as well as we ? And let me tell you , when Moses has trimmed them a little , they will cut a very tolerable figure ...
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... scarcely a family in the neighbourhood but incurred our suspicions , and each of us had reasons for our opinions best known to ourselves . As we were in this perplexity , one of our little boys , who had been playing abroad , brought in ...
... scarcely a family in the neighbourhood but incurred our suspicions , and each of us had reasons for our opinions best known to ourselves . As we were in this perplexity , one of our little boys , who had been playing abroad , brought in ...
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... scarcely patience to hear me to the end , but railed at the writer with unrestrained resentment . Olivia was equally severe , and Sophia seemed per- fectly amazed at his baseness . As for my part , it appeared to me one of the vilest ...
... scarcely patience to hear me to the end , but railed at the writer with unrestrained resentment . Olivia was equally severe , and Sophia seemed per- fectly amazed at his baseness . As for my part , it appeared to me one of the vilest ...
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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?