The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Life and Notes, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... merit ; while at the other quarterly examinations , a premium is sometimes given to the second best answerer , when the person who answers best has previously obtained that honour . ‡ He was also , June 15 , 1747 , elected an ...
... merit ; while at the other quarterly examinations , a premium is sometimes given to the second best answerer , when the person who answers best has previously obtained that honour . ‡ He was also , June 15 , 1747 , elected an ...
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... merit by the ability displayed in a criticism of his , which appeared in the Critical Review , of a despicable translation of Ovid's Fasti , by one William Massey . * His friendship was of considerable use to our young author , for he ...
... merit by the ability displayed in a criticism of his , which appeared in the Critical Review , of a despicable translation of Ovid's Fasti , by one William Massey . * His friendship was of considerable use to our young author , for he ...
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... merit ; told the landlady I should soon return , and having gone to a bookseller , sold it for sixty pounds . I brought Goldsmith the money , and he discharged his rent , not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used ...
... merit ; told the landlady I should soon return , and having gone to a bookseller , sold it for sixty pounds . I brought Goldsmith the money , and he discharged his rent , not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used ...
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... merits in this department of literature by Dr Johnson , may be confidently opposed to the sneers of his detractors : " Goldsmith , as an historian , stands in the first class It is the great excellence of a writer , to put into his work ...
... merits in this department of literature by Dr Johnson , may be confidently opposed to the sneers of his detractors : " Goldsmith , as an historian , stands in the first class It is the great excellence of a writer , to put into his work ...
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... merits of those writers who had chiefly distinguished themselves in treating of it , as encouraged the book- sellers to engage himself on a new work of the same kind . His friends endeavoured to discourage him from this undertaking , in ...
... merits of those writers who had chiefly distinguished themselves in treating of it , as encouraged the book- sellers to engage himself on a new work of the same kind . His friends endeavoured to discourage him from this undertaking , in ...
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Page 102 - The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied.
Page 105 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Page 118 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks...
Page 96 - Far, far away, thy children leave the land. 50 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 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.
Page 96 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green ; One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain...
Page 102 - 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...
Page 81 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good...
Page 99 - But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 130 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes.
Page 99 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched, than to rise.