The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1Bradbury and Evans, 1854 - 548 pages |
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... BY JOHN FORSTER , OF THE INNER TEMPLE , BARRISTER AT LAW . 8655 SECOND EDITION . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. LONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS , 11 , BOUVERIE STREET . 1854 . 16487.15 HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS ,
... BY JOHN FORSTER , OF THE INNER TEMPLE , BARRISTER AT LAW . 8655 SECOND EDITION . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. LONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS , 11 , BOUVERIE STREET . 1854 . 16487.15 HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LONDON : BRADBURY AND EVANS ,
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... Edition was received . With this remark these volumes should have been dismissed , to find what acceptance and appreciation the new facts and illustrations they contain may justly win for them , but for the circumstance of an attack ...
... Edition was received . With this remark these volumes should have been dismissed , to find what acceptance and appreciation the new facts and illustrations they contain may justly win for them , but for the circumstance of an attack ...
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... edition is thus remedied . I no longer , from a strained sense of the courtesy due to a living writer , and an immediate predecessor on this ground , confine my acknowledgments chiefly to him . The reader is enabled to see exactly the ...
... edition is thus remedied . I no longer , from a strained sense of the courtesy due to a living writer , and an immediate predecessor on this ground , confine my acknowledgments chiefly to him . The reader is enabled to see exactly the ...
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... edition of the Miscel- laneous Works , Mr. Prior never once refers . He preserves almost as close a silence in respect to the Percy Memoir itself , which , though remaining still by far the fullest and most authentic repository of ...
... edition of the Miscel- laneous Works , Mr. Prior never once refers . He preserves almost as close a silence in respect to the Percy Memoir itself , which , though remaining still by far the fullest and most authentic repository of ...
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... edition and elaborate " memoir twelve years ago , had placed every subsequent " writer under weighty obligations to him . " If any one then had warned me of the impending wrath of Mr. Prior , it would have appeared to me simply ridi ...
... edition and elaborate " memoir twelve years ago , had placed every subsequent " writer under weighty obligations to him . " If any one then had warned me of the impending wrath of Mr. Prior , it would have appeared to me simply ridi ...
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Page 296 - 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. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its 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 him so ill '." My next meeting...
Page 67 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. 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...
Page 66 - To make him loathe his vegetable meal: But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil. Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose...
Page 65 - 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...
Page 70 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 285 - The wretch, condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies ; And every pang that rends the heart, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
Page 267 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 15 - We were told that universal benevolence was what first cemented society; we were taught to consider all the wants of mankind as our own; to regard the human face divine with affection and esteem; he wound us up to be mere machines of pity, and rendered us incapable of withstanding the slightest impulse made either by real or fictitious distress; in a word, we were perfectly instructed in the art of giving away thousands, before we were taught the more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing.
Page 312 - Thus," adds the teller of the anecdote, "did this idiot in the affairs of the world trifle with his fortunes, and put back the hand that was held out to assist him ! Other offers of a like kind he either rejected or failed to improve, contenting himself with the patronage of one nobleman whose mansion afforded him the delights of a splendid table and a retreat for a few days from the metropolis."* The incident related may excuse the comment attached to it.
Page 274 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!