The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith..J. Johnson; W.J. and J. Richardson; W. Otridge and Son; F. and C. Rivington; J. Walker; W. Lowndes; Vernor and Hood; Cuthell and Martin; F. Wingrave; Scatcherd and Letterman; Wilkie and Robinson; R. Lea; Darton and Harvey; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; and J. Matthews., 1806 |
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... speaking of this in those manuscript anecdotes al- ready quoted , says , That the poem is very good . The story , continues he , was written originally in Spanish , whence probably Howel had translated it into prose , and inserted it in ...
... speaking of this in those manuscript anecdotes al- ready quoted , says , That the poem is very good . The story , continues he , was written originally in Spanish , whence probably Howel had translated it into prose , and inserted it in ...
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... speaking on this occasion ) in both were perfectly " answerable ; and , to the shame of the peerage be " it spoken , I saw at that time several Lords concur " to condemn in one general vote all that they had " approved in a former ...
... speaking on this occasion ) in both were perfectly " answerable ; and , to the shame of the peerage be " it spoken , I saw at that time several Lords concur " to condemn in one general vote all that they had " approved in a former ...
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... speaking more hap- pily applied , or a tale better told , than this . PALEMON AND LAVINIA . Mr. Thomson , though , in general , a verbose and affected poet , has told this story with unusual simplicity it is rather given here for being ...
... speaking more hap- pily applied , or a tale better told , than this . PALEMON AND LAVINIA . Mr. Thomson , though , in general , a verbose and affected poet , has told this story with unusual simplicity it is rather given here for being ...
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... speak to them in the tones of anger , and sometimes it was even necessary to use blows , to excite them to their duty . How different these from the common people of England , whom a blow might induce to return the affront sevenfold ...
... speak to them in the tones of anger , and sometimes it was even necessary to use blows , to excite them to their duty . How different these from the common people of England , whom a blow might induce to return the affront sevenfold ...
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... speak without metaphor , she conforms to general fashion , only when it hap- pens not to be repugnant to private beauty . Our ladies , on the contrary , seem to have no other standard for grace but the run of the town . If fashion gives ...
... speak without metaphor , she conforms to general fashion , only when it hap- pens not to be repugnant to private beauty . Our ladies , on the contrary , seem to have no other standard for grace but the run of the town . If fashion gives ...
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Página 437 - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 420 - 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...
Página 420 - For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Página 420 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Página 206 - ... of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a new net...
Página 427 - 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...
Página 428 - O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Página 67 - ... beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl. " 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 two hundred pounds, to paint his country hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c., and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm.
Página 21 - He appears to me to be the last of that great school that had modelled itself upon the ancients, and taught English poetry to resemble what the generality of mankind have allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he set himself to consider nature with the lights it lent him ; and he found that the more aid he borrowed from the one, the more delightfully he resembled the other.
Página 394 - 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.