The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volumen4Thomas Tegg, 1835 |
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... serve as an example of the errors he undertakes to reprove . Novelty , however , is not permitted to usurp the place of reason ; it may attend , but shall not conduct the inquiry . But it should be observed , that the more original any ...
... serve as an example of the errors he undertakes to reprove . Novelty , however , is not permitted to usurp the place of reason ; it may attend , but shall not conduct the inquiry . But it should be observed , that the more original any ...
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... serve to mark the progress of learning , though they seldom contribute to its improvement . But as nothing but speculation was required in making proficients in their respective departments , so neither the satire nor the contempt of ...
... serve to mark the progress of learning , though they seldom contribute to its improvement . But as nothing but speculation was required in making proficients in their respective departments , so neither the satire nor the contempt of ...
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... serve to help out the declaimer , should be cautiously admitted by the historian . For instance , the tenth century is particularly distinguished by posterity with the appellation of obscure . Yet even in this , the reader's memory may ...
... serve to help out the declaimer , should be cautiously admitted by the historian . For instance , the tenth century is particularly distinguished by posterity with the appellation of obscure . Yet even in this , the reader's memory may ...
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... serve at once to confirm what I assert , and give the reader an idea of what kind of learning an age declining into obscurity chiefly chooses to cultivate . About the tenth century flourished Leo the philosopher . We have seven volumes ...
... serve at once to confirm what I assert , and give the reader an idea of what kind of learning an age declining into obscurity chiefly chooses to cultivate . About the tenth century flourished Leo the philosopher . We have seven volumes ...
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... serves as a check upon the rest of his fellows . Yet , very probably , even this fine institution will soon decay . As it rose , so it will decline with its great encourager . The society , if I may so speak , is artificially supported ...
... serves as a check upon the rest of his fellows . Yet , very probably , even this fine institution will soon decay . As it rose , so it will decline with its great encourager . The society , if I may so speak , is artificially supported ...
Términos y frases comunes
absurdity acquainted admiration agreeable amusement antiquity appeared Aristotle attempts Ballymahon beauty character contempt continue criticism David Mallet Dr Johnson Duke of Ormond Earl of Mar eloquence endeavour enemy England English excellence expect fame favour fortune France French friends friendship genius give Goldsmith hand happiness honour humour imagination imitation Jacobite King labour lady language laws letters literary lived Lord Bolingbroke Lysippus mankind manner MDCCLXXI means merit mind never object obliged observed occasion Oliver Goldsmith once Parnell party passion perceive perhaps person philosopher pleasing pleasure poem poet poetry polite learning Pope possessed praise present Pretender profession proper reader regard reputation ridiculous scarcely Scotland seems seldom serve shew society soon sufficient supposed taste thing THOMAS PARNELL thought tion trifling truth virtue Voltaire vulgar Whigs whole writer written Zoilus
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Página 318 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules...
Página 319 - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Página 58 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY: His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Página 114 - ... pity. Some are without the covering even of rags, and others emaciated with disease ; the world has disclaimed them ; society turns its back upon their distress, and has given them up to nakedness and hunger.
Página 37 - And indeed a child of the public he is in all respects; for, while so well able to direct others, how incapable is he frequently found of guiding himself! His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning; his sensibility, to the slightest invasions of contempt. Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant as to agonise under the slightest disappointment.
Página 319 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, 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 110 - The insect I am now describing lived three years ; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared cither for a defence or an attack.
Página 114 - How few appear in those streets which but some few hours ago were crowded; and those who appear now no longer wear their daily mask, nor attempt to hide their lewdness or their misery. But who are those who make the streets their couch, and find a short repose from wretchedness at...
Página 114 - Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! Poor houseless creatures ! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.
Página 242 - Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 200£ to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm...