The life and adventures of Oliver GoldsmithBradbury & Evans, 1848 - 704 páginas |
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... already set down in the Vicar of Wakefield . Louvain attracted him of course , as he passed through Flanders ; and here , according to his first biographers , he took the degree of Medical Bachelor , which , as early as 1763 , is found ...
... already set down in the Vicar of Wakefield . Louvain attracted him of course , as he passed through Flanders ; and here , according to his first biographers , he took the degree of Medical Bachelor , which , as early as 1763 , is found ...
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... already dancing in his brain . " ( Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease , Pleas'd with thyself , whom all the world can please , How often have I led thy sportive choir , With tuneless pipe , beside the murmuring Loire ! Where ...
... already dancing in his brain . " ( Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease , Pleas'd with thyself , whom all the world can please , How often have I led thy sportive choir , With tuneless pipe , beside the murmuring Loire ! Where ...
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... view , on a dignified and honourable basis ; but Johnson's work was just begun . He was himself , as yet , one of the meaner workers for " hire ; and though already author of the Dictionary 72 122 [ BOOK I. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF 30.
... view , on a dignified and honourable basis ; but Johnson's work was just begun . He was himself , as yet , one of the meaner workers for " hire ; and though already author of the Dictionary 72 122 [ BOOK I. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF 30.
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John Forster. " hire ; and though already author of the Dictionary , was too glad in this very year to have Robert Dodsley's guinea for writing paragraphs in the London Chronicle . Had you , ' sir , been an author of the lower class ...
John Forster. " hire ; and though already author of the Dictionary , was too glad in this very year to have Robert Dodsley's guinea for writing paragraphs in the London Chronicle . Had you , ' sir , been an author of the lower class ...
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... as even the youths Bonnell Thornton and George Colman were already beginning to be esteemed ; and ready , in such a case as Burke's , to help that the wit should be established . In the same 1757 ro 1759. ] 87 OLIVER GOLDSMITH .
... as even the youths Bonnell Thornton and George Colman were already beginning to be esteemed ; and ready , in such a case as Burke's , to help that the wit should be established . In the same 1757 ro 1759. ] 87 OLIVER GOLDSMITH .
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books John Forster Sin vista previa disponible - 2014 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admiration afterwards amusing appeared Arthur Murphy Ballymahon Beauclerc Bennet Langton Bishop Percy bookseller Boswell brother Bryanton Burke called character cheerful claims Club Colman comedy Covent Garden criticism dear dinner Doctor Goldsmith doubt Dunciad Edgeworthstown Edmund Burke fame fortune garret Garrick genius Gerrard Street give Green Arbour Court Griffiths guineas habit hand happy Hawkins heart History honour hope Horace Walpole humble humour Irish Johnson kind labour lady Langton laughed less letter literary literature lived London Lord Lord Charlemont Magazine manner months nature never Newbery Newbery's night Oliver Goldsmith passed Percy perhaps play poem poet Polite Learning poor pounds poverty present published remark Reynolds Samuel Johnson says seems sizar Smollett Street talk tell Temple theatre things thought tion told truth turned Vicar of Wakefield Voltaire Walpole writing written wrote young
Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 473 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
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.
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 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?
Página 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...