The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 1Galignani & Didot, 1825 |
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Page xxi
... Reason and ridicule are equally impotent against that unhappy passion . To those infected with it , the charms of the gaming - table may be said to be omnipotent . Soon after this , he once more gave himself up to it without control ...
... Reason and ridicule are equally impotent against that unhappy passion . To those infected with it , the charms of the gaming - table may be said to be omnipotent . Soon after this , he once more gave himself up to it without control ...
Page xxx
... reason for making it a secret . In short , by a very little practice as a physician , and a very little reputation as a poet , I make a shift to live . Nothing is more apt to introduce us to the gates of the Muses than poverty ; but it ...
... reason for making it a secret . In short , by a very little practice as a physician , and a very little reputation as a poet , I make a shift to live . Nothing is more apt to introduce us to the gates of the Muses than poverty ; but it ...
Page xxxvii
... reason to congratulate your choice ; but when I consider my own , I cannot avoid feeling some regret , that one of my few friends has declined a pursuit in which he had every reason to expect success . The truth is , like the rest of ...
... reason to congratulate your choice ; but when I consider my own , I cannot avoid feeling some regret , that one of my few friends has declined a pursuit in which he had every reason to expect success . The truth is , like the rest of ...
Page xxxix
... reason to expect , and yet you see me generally fill a whole sheet , which is all the recom- pense I can make for being so frequently troublesome . The behaviour of Mr Mills and Mr Lawder is a little extraordinary . However , their ...
... reason to expect , and yet you see me generally fill a whole sheet , which is all the recom- pense I can make for being so frequently troublesome . The behaviour of Mr Mills and Mr Lawder is a little extraordinary . However , their ...
Page xl
... reasons you have given me for breeding up your son a scholar , are judicious and convincing . I should , however , be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed . If he be assiduous , and divested of strong passions ...
... reasons you have given me for breeding up your son a scholar , are judicious and convincing . I should , however , be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed . If he be assiduous , and divested of strong passions ...
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Page liv - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 40 - Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page iii - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart, untravell'd, fondly turns to thee ; Still to my Brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Page xcii - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 152 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Page lxxiii - But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay. And there, forlorn, despairing, hid, I'll lay me down and die: 'Twas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.
Page cvi - BY inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety.
Page lxxix - I'll make Goldsmith forgive me;" and then •called to him in a loud voice, " Dr. Goldsmith, — something passed to-day where you and I dined: I ask your pardon." Goldsmith answered placidly, " It must be much from you, sir, that I take ill.
Page lxxxviii - Ah, no. To distant climes, a dreary scene, Where half the convex world intrudes between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Page 102 - This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children : he called himself their friend; but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted, but he was in haste to be gone; for he was ever on business of the utmost importance, and was at that time actually compiling materials for the history of on