The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The Life and Times of Oliver GoldsmithHarper & brothers, 1900 |
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... less importance from less eminent hands , and some occasional verses which he supposed to be his friend Robert Nugent's , ' but which were really written by Lord The origin of the mistake is obvious . Nugent had written an " Epistle to ...
... less importance from less eminent hands , and some occasional verses which he supposed to be his friend Robert Nugent's , ' but which were really written by Lord The origin of the mistake is obvious . Nugent had written an " Epistle to ...
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... less than twenty years since that faultless " family expositor , " Dr. Dodd- ridge ( as we learn from the letters of the pious divine ) , thought it no sin to read the Wife of Bath's Tale to young Nancy Moore , and take his share in the ...
... less than twenty years since that faultless " family expositor , " Dr. Dodd- ridge ( as we learn from the letters of the pious divine ) , thought it no sin to read the Wife of Bath's Tale to young Nancy Moore , and take his share in the ...
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... less than from three to four hundred pounds , there was nothing to make the town half so fond of a man , even yet , as a successful play . It had been the dream , too , of his own earliest am- bition ; and though his juvenile tragedy ...
... less than from three to four hundred pounds , there was nothing to make the town half so fond of a man , even yet , as a successful play . It had been the dream , too , of his own earliest am- bition ; and though his juvenile tragedy ...
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... less distress than Goldsmith ; and , returning to his own chambers after midnight , found a difficulty in getting in . Goldsmith had meanwhile himself borrowed the money , followed with it too late , and thrust it , 1 See note , vol . i ...
... less distress than Goldsmith ; and , returning to his own chambers after midnight , found a difficulty in getting in . Goldsmith had meanwhile himself borrowed the money , followed with it too late , and thrust it , 1 See note , vol . i ...
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... less a sum than two hundred pounds ; it was because Goldsmith had no other rank than as a man of letters , depressed and at that time very slowly rising , that his Traveller had obtained for him only twenty guineas . Even David Hume ...
... less a sum than two hundred pounds ; it was because Goldsmith had no other rank than as a man of letters , depressed and at that time very slowly rising , that his Traveller had obtained for him only twenty guineas . Even David Hume ...
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actor admirable afterwards allusion amusing anecdote appeared bookseller Boswell Boswell's brother Burke called character Chatham club Colman comedy Cooke Corsica Covent Garden Davies dear death Deserted Village dined dinner doubt Drury Lane Duke edition European Magazine Francis Garrick Correspondence genius gentleman George Grenville Gerrard Street Gold Good-natured Gray guineas heart History Horace Walpole Hume humor Irish John Johnson Joseph Warton Junius Kelly King knew Lady laugh less letter literary lived London Lord Lord Bute Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne mind nature never Newbery night occasion Oliver Goldsmith party passed Peter Barlow play poem poet poetry pounds quote remark Reynolds Rockingham says scene seems Shakespeare Sir James Lowther Sir Joshua sister Street suit talk tell theatre thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies truth Walpole Walpole's Wilkes writing written wrote
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Side 208 - Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where gray-beard mirth, and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound And news much older than their ale went round.
Side 216 - And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid Still first to fly where sensual joys invade! Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Side 209 - 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...
Side 211 - And, pinched 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.
Side 211 - Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe : Here while the courtier glitters in brocade, There the pale artist plies the sickly trade ; Here while the proud their long-drawn pomps display, There the black gibbet glooms beside the way.
Side 207 - And, as an 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.
Side 155 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Side 195 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Side 169 - Goldsmith, to divert the tedious minutes, strutted about, bragging of his dress, and I believe was seriously vain of it, for his mind was wonderfully prone to such impressions. "Come, come" (said Garrick), "talk no more of that. You are perhaps the worst— eh, eh.
Side 116 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...