The Works of Washington Irving: Oliver GoldsmithGeorge P. Putnam, 1851 |
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... thing more satisfactory could be substituted . Under these cir- cumstances I have again taken up the subject , and gone into it with more fulness than formerly , omitting none of the facts which I considered illustrative of the life and ...
... thing more satisfactory could be substituted . Under these cir- cumstances I have again taken up the subject , and gone into it with more fulness than formerly , omitting none of the facts which I considered illustrative of the life and ...
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... thing but what they ought . " - " They were remarkable , " says another statement , " for their worth , but of no cleverness in the ways of the world . " Oliver Goldsmith will be found faithfully to inherit the virtues and weaknesses of ...
... thing but what they ought . " - " They were remarkable , " says another statement , " for their worth , but of no cleverness in the ways of the world . " Oliver Goldsmith will be found faithfully to inherit the virtues and weaknesses of ...
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... thing of him : a common case with imaginative children , who are apt to be beguiled from the dry abstractions of elementary study by the picturings of the fancy . At six years of age he passed into the hands of the village schoolmaster ...
... thing of him : a common case with imaginative children , who are apt to be beguiled from the dry abstractions of elementary study by the picturings of the fancy . At six years of age he passed into the hands of the village schoolmaster ...
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... thing , in short , that savored of romance , fable , and adventure , was congenial to his poetic mind , and took instant root there ; but the slow plants of useful knowledge were apt to be overrun , if not choked , by the weeds of his ...
... thing , in short , that savored of romance , fable , and adventure , was congenial to his poetic mind , and took instant root there ; but the slow plants of useful knowledge were apt to be overrun , if not choked , by the weeds of his ...
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... thing ; as usual , her influence prevailed , and Oliver , instead of being instructed in some humble , but cheerful and gainful handicraft , was devoted to poverty and the Muse . A severe attack of the smallpox caused him to be taken ...
... thing ; as usual , her influence prevailed , and Oliver , instead of being instructed in some humble , but cheerful and gainful handicraft , was devoted to poverty and the Muse . A severe attack of the smallpox caused him to be taken ...
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Page 249 - ... 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 223 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran; E'en children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile...
Page 249 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 250 - Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Page 23 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 161 - 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 21 - More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train...
Page 122 - HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack; He led such a damnable life in this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back.
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 234 - Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.