The miscellaneous works of OLiver Goldsmith [ed. by S. Rose].1812 |
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... , and fortune will at last change in our favour CHAP . XXXI . 177 Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected in- terest 186 CHAP . XXXII . The Conclusion 202 AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING . CONTENTS . ix.
... , and fortune will at last change in our favour CHAP . XXXI . 177 Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected in- terest 186 CHAP . XXXII . The Conclusion 202 AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING . CONTENTS . ix.
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... former child , and the liberal education which their father was then bestowing on his eldest son , bearing hard upon his small income , he could only propose to bring up Oliver to some mercantile employment . " With this view he was ...
... former child , and the liberal education which their father was then bestowing on his eldest son , bearing hard upon his small income , he could only propose to bring up Oliver to some mercantile employment . " With this view he was ...
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... former memoirs of Dr. Goldsmith it is retailed at length , and said to have happened at Sunderland . But what occurred to him at Newcastle ( as described below ) is apparently the occasion of the mistake . very singular adventure , and ...
... former memoirs of Dr. Goldsmith it is retailed at length , and said to have happened at Sunderland . But what occurred to him at Newcastle ( as described below ) is apparently the occasion of the mistake . very singular adventure , and ...
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... former times ; he in every thing imitates a Frenchman , but in his easy disengaged air , which is the result of keeping polite company . The Dutchman is vastly ceremonious , and is perhaps exactly what a French- man might have been in ...
... former times ; he in every thing imitates a Frenchman , but in his easy disengaged air , which is the result of keeping polite company . The Dutchman is vastly ceremonious , and is perhaps exactly what a French- man might have been in ...
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... former . This entertain- ment always brings in Harlequin , who is generally a magician , and in consequence of his diabolical art , performs a thousand tricks on the rest of the persons of the drama , who are all fools . I have seen the ...
... former . This entertain- ment always brings in Harlequin , who is generally a magician , and in consequence of his diabolical art , performs a thousand tricks on the rest of the persons of the drama , who are all fools . I have seen the ...
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Page 141 - 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 108 - I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was brow-beat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys within, and never permitted to stir out to meet civility abroad.
Page 26 - tis certain, handsome women here ; and 'tis as certain, they have handsome men to keep them company. An ugly and a poor man is society only for himself ; and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances, and Nature a person to look charming in the eyes of the fair. Nor do I envy, my dear Bob, such blessings, while I may sit down and laugh at the world, and at myself — the most ridiculous object in it.
Page 56 - It is impossible to conceive how much may be done by a proper education at home. A boy, for instance, who understands perfectly well Latin, French, Arithmetic and the principles of the civil law, and can write a fine hand, has an education that may qualify him for any undertaking.
Page 55 - I should, however, be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous and divested of strong passions (for passions in youth always lead to pleasure) he may do very well in your college; for it must be owned that the industrious poor have good encouragement there, perhaps better than in any other in Europe. But if he has ambition, strong passions, and an exquisite sensibility of contempt, do not send him there, unless you have no other trade for him but your own.
Page 95 - 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.
Page 1 - I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Page iii - THE Life of Dr. PARNELL is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Page 37 - The crackling faggot flies. But nothing could a charm impart To soothe the stranger's woe ; For grief was heavy at his heart, And tears began to flow. His rising cares the Hermit spied, With answering care opprest : « And whence, unhappy youth, » he cried,