The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, including a variety of pieces now first collected by J. Prior, Volum 11837 |
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... endeavour to fortify myself against the future contempt or neglect of some readers , and am prepared for their dislike by mutual recri- mination . If such should impute dealing neither in battles nor scandal to me as a fault , instead ...
... endeavour to fortify myself against the future contempt or neglect of some readers , and am prepared for their dislike by mutual recri- mination . If such should impute dealing neither in battles nor scandal to me as a fault , instead ...
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... endeavour to preserve the peculiar humour by the make of the mask ; but I have seen others still preserve a great fund of humour in the face without a mask ; one actor , particularly , by a squint which he threw into some characters of ...
... endeavour to preserve the peculiar humour by the make of the mask ; but I have seen others still preserve a great fund of humour in the face without a mask ; one actor , particularly , by a squint which he threw into some characters of ...
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... endeavour , by repeat- ed experiments , to strike a light out of the chaos in which ( 1 ) [ " At length a mighty man of Greece began To assert the nat'ral liberty of man . " - CREECH . ] truth seemed to be confounded . Their curiosity ...
... endeavour , by repeat- ed experiments , to strike a light out of the chaos in which ( 1 ) [ " At length a mighty man of Greece began To assert the nat'ral liberty of man . " - CREECH . ] truth seemed to be confounded . Their curiosity ...
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... endeavour to grow beneath him , and keeps down that merit which , but for his influence , might rise into equal eminence . While others , still worse , peruse old books for their amusement , and new books only to con- demn ; so that the ...
... endeavour to grow beneath him , and keeps down that merit which , but for his influence , might rise into equal eminence . While others , still worse , peruse old books for their amusement , and new books only to con- demn ; so that the ...
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... endeavour to imitate the good to society that our neighbours are found to practise , and let our neighbours also imitate those parts of duty in which we excel . There are some men , who in their garden , attempt to raise those fruits ...
... endeavour to imitate the good to society that our neighbours are found to practise , and let our neighbours also imitate those parts of duty in which we excel . There are some men , who in their garden , attempt to raise those fruits ...
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Side 298 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Side 298 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Side 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.
Side 298 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Side 298 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Side 321 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Side 272 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Side 549 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Side 269 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Side 305 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...