The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper & brothers, 1854 - 297 páginas |
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... PRIOR , GAY , AND POPE . 138 LECTURE THE FIFTH . HOGARTH , SMOLLETT , AND FIELDING 187 LECTURE THE SIXTH . STERNE AND GOLDSMITH . 228 CHARITY AND HUMOUR LECTURE THE SEVENTH . 272 1556 , June 6 . 180 hought with the donation.
... PRIOR , GAY , AND POPE . 138 LECTURE THE FIFTH . HOGARTH , SMOLLETT , AND FIELDING 187 LECTURE THE SIXTH . STERNE AND GOLDSMITH . 228 CHARITY AND HUMOUR LECTURE THE SEVENTH . 272 1556 , June 6 . 180 hought with the donation.
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... Goldsmith , than have been beholden to the Dean for a guinea and dinner . ' He insulted a man as he served him , made women cry , guests look foolish , bullied unlucky friends , and flung his benefactions into poor men's faces . No ...
... Goldsmith , than have been beholden to the Dean for a guinea and dinner . ' He insulted a man as he served him , made women cry , guests look foolish , bullied unlucky friends , and flung his benefactions into poor men's faces . No ...
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... Goldsmith , or Fielding , in his most reckless moment of satire , have written anything like the Dean's famous " mod- est proposal " for eating children ? Not one of these but melts at the thoughts of childhood , fondles and caresses ...
... Goldsmith , or Fielding , in his most reckless moment of satire , have written anything like the Dean's famous " mod- est proposal " for eating children ? Not one of these but melts at the thoughts of childhood , fondles and caresses ...
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... Goldsmith's " Memoir of Voltaire . " But it is worthy of remark , that it does not appear in the text of the same Letters in the edition of Voltaire's Œuvres Complètes in the Panthéon Littéraire . Vol . v . of his works . ( Paris , 1837 ...
... Goldsmith's " Memoir of Voltaire . " But it is worthy of remark , that it does not appear in the text of the same Letters in the edition of Voltaire's Œuvres Complètes in the Panthéon Littéraire . Vol . v . of his works . ( Paris , 1837 ...
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... Goldsmith , had a musical talent . He could play on the flute , ' says Malone , and was , therefore , enabled to adapt so happily some of the airs in the Beggar's Opera . ' " - Notes to SPENCE . 2 " T'was when the seas were roaring With ...
... Goldsmith , had a musical talent . He could play on the flute , ' says Malone , and was , therefore , enabled to adapt so happily some of the airs in the Beggar's Opera . ' " - Notes to SPENCE . 2 " T'was when the seas were roaring With ...
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Página 263 - Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return, — and die at home at last.
Página 127 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Página 290 - Had she a brother ? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other ? Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh ! it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full, Home she had none.
Página 127 - And you, who never fell from pride : You who in different sects were shamm'd, And come to see each other damn'd ; (So some folk told you, but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you ;) — The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent these pranks no more. — I to such blockheads set my wit ! I damn such fools ! — -Go, go, you're bit.
Página 88 - They were neither of them dissatisfied with the knight's determination, because neither of them found himself in the wrong by it : upon which we made the best of our way to the assizes. The court was sat before Sir Roger came, but notwithstanding all the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old knight at the head of them : who, for his reputation in the country, took occasion to whisper in the judge's ' ear, that he was glad his lordship had met with so much good...
Página 185 - Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Página 35 - Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort, and the deaths of the old.
Página 143 - tis his fancy to run, At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come: No matter what beauties I saw in my way; They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
Página 25 - When I came to the ante-chamber to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a Master of Requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in gaol, and published sermons to pay fees.
Página 49 - So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy.