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... Thoughts of literary suicide . - Return to Peckham.- Oriental projects . - Literary enterprise to raise funds . - Letter to Edward Wells - to Robert Bryanton . - Death of uncle Contarine . - Letter to cousin Jane , 197 CONTENTS . vii ...
... Thoughts of literary suicide . - Return to Peckham.- Oriental projects . - Literary enterprise to raise funds . - Letter to Edward Wells - to Robert Bryanton . - Death of uncle Contarine . - Letter to cousin Jane , 197 CONTENTS . vii ...
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... thought , in a form too cumbrous and overlaid with details and disquisitions , and matters uninteresting to the gene- ral reader . When I was about of late to revise my biographical sketch , preparatory to republication , a volume was ...
... thought , in a form too cumbrous and overlaid with details and disquisitions , and matters uninteresting to the gene- ral reader . When I was about of late to revise my biographical sketch , preparatory to republication , a volume was ...
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... thoughts ; they put us in good humor with ourselves and with the world , and in so doing they make us happier and better men . An acquaintance with the private biography of Goldsmith lets us into the secret of his gifted pages . We ...
... thoughts ; they put us in good humor with ourselves and with the world , and in so doing they make us happier and better men . An acquaintance with the private biography of Goldsmith lets us into the secret of his gifted pages . We ...
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... hornpipe , exclaimed , " Our herald hath proclaimed this saying , See Æsop dancing , and his monkey playing . " The repartee was thought wonderful for a boy of nine years old , and Oliver became forthwith the wit and the 2.
... hornpipe , exclaimed , " Our herald hath proclaimed this saying , See Æsop dancing , and his monkey playing . " The repartee was thought wonderful for a boy of nine years old , and Oliver became forthwith the wit and the 2.
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... thought a pity he should not receive the same advantages with his elder brother Henry , who had been sent to the University ; and , as his father's circumstances would not afford it , several of his relatives , spurred on by the repre ...
... thought a pity he should not receive the same advantages with his elder brother Henry , who had been sent to the University ; and , as his father's circumstances would not afford it , several of his relatives , spurred on by the repre ...
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Page 247 - ... bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 21 - More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train...
Page 159 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated.
Page 288 - Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall with a black lead pencil.
Page 221 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 79 - Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! Poor houseless creatures ! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.
Page 134 - Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
Page 194 - By this time my curiosity began to abate, and my appetite to increase ; the company of fools may at first make us smile, but at last never fails of rendering us melancholy. I therefore pretended to recollect a prior engagement, and after having...
Page 189 - Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner; but no man alive has a more tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin.
Page 167 - I could say nothing but that I had a brother there, a clergyman, that stood in need of help: as for myself, I have no dependence on the promises of great men: I look to the booksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.