The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, including a variety of pieces now first collected by J. Prior, Volum 11837 |
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... pleasure arising from the perusal of the very bagatelles of men renowned for their knowledge and genius ; and we receive with veneration those pieces after they are dead , which would lessen them in our estimation while living ...
... pleasure arising from the perusal of the very bagatelles of men renowned for their knowledge and genius ; and we receive with veneration those pieces after they are dead , which would lessen them in our estimation while living ...
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... pleasure presented , I was resolved to follow . Like the BEE , which I had taken for the title of my paper , I would rove from flower to flower , with seeming inattention , but concealed choice , expatiate over all the beauties of the ...
... pleasure presented , I was resolved to follow . Like the BEE , which I had taken for the title of my paper , I would rove from flower to flower , with seeming inattention , but concealed choice , expatiate over all the beauties of the ...
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... pleasures commented upon by didactic dulness . We shall , it is feared , be told , that Garrick is a fine actor , but then , as a manager , so avaricious ! That Palmer is a most sur- prising genius , and Holland likely to do well , in a ...
... pleasures commented upon by didactic dulness . We shall , it is feared , be told , that Garrick is a fine actor , but then , as a manager , so avaricious ! That Palmer is a most sur- prising genius , and Holland likely to do well , in a ...
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... When half inwrapt , and half to view reveal'd , She gives new pleasures from her charms conceal'd . " - HOOLE . ] When we made our entry at the park , two 24 THE BEE . Picture of the Swedes; with Anecdotes of Charles the Twelfth .........
... When half inwrapt , and half to view reveal'd , She gives new pleasures from her charms conceal'd . " - HOOLE . ] When we made our entry at the park , two 24 THE BEE . Picture of the Swedes; with Anecdotes of Charles the Twelfth .........
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... pleasure ; I then made no refinements on happiness , but could be pleased with the most awkward efforts of rustic mirth ; thought cross - purposes the highest stretch of human wit , and questions and commands the most rational amusement ...
... pleasure ; I then made no refinements on happiness , but could be pleased with the most awkward efforts of rustic mirth ; thought cross - purposes the highest stretch of human wit , and questions and commands the most rational amusement ...
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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...