Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith1848 |
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... minds qualified for great attainments should first endeavour their own benefit ; and that they who are most ' able to teach others the way to happiness , should with most certainty follow it themselves : but this expectation , however ...
... minds qualified for great attainments should first endeavour their own benefit ; and that they who are most ' able to teach others the way to happiness , should with most certainty follow it themselves : but this expectation , however ...
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... mind about nothing . ' Few cared to think or speak of him but as little Goldy , honest Goldy ; and every one laughed at him for the oddity of his blunders , and the awkwardness of his manners . 6 " But I invite the reader to his Life ...
... mind about nothing . ' Few cared to think or speak of him but as little Goldy , honest Goldy ; and every one laughed at him for the oddity of his blunders , and the awkwardness of his manners . 6 " But I invite the reader to his Life ...
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... mind . ' There was no old dairy - maid , no Peggy Golden , to beguile childish sorrows , or , as he mournfully recalls in one of his delightful Essays , to sing him into pleasant tears with Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night , or the ...
... mind . ' There was no old dairy - maid , no Peggy Golden , to beguile childish sorrows , or , as he mournfully recalls in one of his delightful Essays , to sing him into pleasant tears with Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night , or the ...
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... for the chance of another Goldsmith . The truth is important to be kept in mind : that Genius is in no respect allied to these weak- nesses , but , when unhappily connected with them , 1728 TO 1757. ] 29 OLIVER GOLDSMITH . 22 view.
... for the chance of another Goldsmith . The truth is important to be kept in mind : that Genius is in no respect allied to these weak- nesses , but , when unhappily connected with them , 1728 TO 1757. ] 29 OLIVER GOLDSMITH . 22 view.
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... mind . Habit comes in aid of all deficiencies . The reader will be therefore not unprepared to find , as well in these sunny Irish years , as in other parts of the apparently vagrant and idle career to be now described , some points of ...
... mind . Habit comes in aid of all deficiencies . The reader will be therefore not unprepared to find , as well in these sunny Irish years , as in other parts of the apparently vagrant and idle career to be now described , some points of ...
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Página 184 - 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.
Página 185 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 535 - While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Ranged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row. Vain transitory splendours! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall? Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's heart. Thither no more the peasant shall repair To sweet oblivion of his daily care...
Página 468 - His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd...
Página 184 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Página 579 - 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...
Página 537 - 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!
Página 305 - 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. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Página 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...
Página 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.