The life and adventures of Oliver GoldsmithBradbury & Evans, 1848 - 704 pages |
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Page 49
... admired the celebrated actress Mademoiselle Clairon ( of whom he speaks in an essay ) ; and to have had leisure to look quietly around him , and form certain grave and settled conclusions on the political and social state of France . He ...
... admired the celebrated actress Mademoiselle Clairon ( of whom he speaks in an essay ) ; and to have had leisure to look quietly around him , and form certain grave and settled conclusions on the political and social state of France . He ...
Page 95
... admired as Walpole admired . Their weaknesses were to him their strength ; he treasured every obscure allusion ; would have had the remoteness and violent effort even more remote and violent ; would have closed the page , he could , to ...
... admired as Walpole admired . Their weaknesses were to him their strength ; he treasured every obscure allusion ; would have had the remoteness and violent effort even more remote and violent ; would have closed the page , he could , to ...
Page 97
... Admirable rebuke to those who seize the form , but not the spirit , of an elder time ; and mistake the phrase which passes in a century , for the heart which is young for ever . The poetical genius of which Goldsmith is already ...
... Admirable rebuke to those who seize the form , but not the spirit , of an elder time ; and mistake the phrase which passes in a century , for the heart which is young for ever . The poetical genius of which Goldsmith is already ...
Page 119
... admiration ; and I find myself most violently disposed to admire too . Let me , then , stop my fancy to take a view of my future self ; and , as the boys say , light down to see myself on horseback . Well , now I am down , where the ...
... admiration ; and I find myself most violently disposed to admire too . Let me , then , stop my fancy to take a view of my future self ; and , as the boys say , light down to see myself on horseback . Well , now I am down , where the ...
Page 133
... admiration . ' Thus , when the reader begins a sentence which he finds pregnant with another , which still teems with a third , and so on , he feels the same surprise which a country- man does at Bartholomew fair . Hocus shows a bag ...
... admiration . ' Thus , when the reader begins a sentence which he finds pregnant with another , which still teems with a third , and so on , he feels the same surprise which a country- man does at Bartholomew fair . Hocus shows a bag ...
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Popular passages
Page 188 - 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 543 - 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 473 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven...
Page 540 - 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 472 - 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. His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Page 585 - 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, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and...
Page 54 - 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 65 - I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys...
Page 543 - Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure, scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ! Sure, these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts?
Page 541 - 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 pond'rous strength, and lean to hear...