The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1873 - 408 pages |
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... history except by a mastery of execution unapproached by competitors . He only may hope to have possessed himself of a subject who has ex- hausted it , or to have established his originality in dealing with facts who has so happily ...
... history except by a mastery of execution unapproached by competitors . He only may hope to have possessed himself of a subject who has ex- hausted it , or to have established his originality in dealing with facts who has so happily ...
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... history 218 Humble recreations • 200 Memorialising Lord Bute 219 Polly and the Pickpocket 200 At work on the Vicar 219 Magistrate and managers 200 Gray and Johnson 220 The State reminded of its At dinner with Tom Davies 220 duty 201 ...
... history 218 Humble recreations • 200 Memorialising Lord Bute 219 Polly and the Pickpocket 200 At work on the Vicar 219 Magistrate and managers 200 Gray and Johnson 220 The State reminded of its At dinner with Tom Davies 220 duty 201 ...
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... history . In seem to have been made truth , however , the rejection is very comfortable to him ) , the only absolute certainty . The and started for Cork , with an- man in black , it will be remem- other floating vision of America ...
... history . In seem to have been made truth , however , the rejection is very comfortable to him ) , the only absolute certainty . The and started for Cork , with an- man in black , it will be remem- other floating vision of America ...
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... History of the World . " holiday at Peckham , " said an left very considerable property , the most part for charitable purposes . Gent . Mag . Watkins's Literary Anecdotes , 515 . LXXXVII . 278 . She " the school . Every trick is there ...
... History of the World . " holiday at Peckham , " said an left very considerable property , the most part for charitable purposes . Gent . Mag . Watkins's Literary Anecdotes , 515 . LXXXVII . 278 . She " the school . Every trick is there ...
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... history and politics , and grave . Smollett was toughly " are praised : men , sir , who , had fighting for his every - day's ex- " they been bred cobblers , would istence ; and Johnson had " all their lives have only mended but the ...
... history and politics , and grave . Smollett was toughly " are praised : men , sir , who , had fighting for his every - day's ex- " they been bred cobblers , would istence ; and Johnson had " all their lives have only mended but the ...
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Page 84 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd 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 321 - 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.
Page 88 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth when every sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 154 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair To sweet oblivion of his daily care; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength and lean to hear...
Page 84 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt, at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all...
Page 147 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 205 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 154 - 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...
Page 50 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 212 - Here lies our good Edmund,' whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.