The bee. Essays. An enquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductionsJohn Murray, 1837 |
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... collected . ] ...... .................. . III . On the different Schools of Music 167 ........ 173 iv . A Reverie at the Boar's - Head Tavern , Eastcheap ... 179 ESSAY V. The Fountain of Fine Sense ; a Dream CONTENTS .
... collected . ] ...... .................. . III . On the different Schools of Music 167 ........ 173 iv . A Reverie at the Boar's - Head Tavern , Eastcheap ... 179 ESSAY V. The Fountain of Fine Sense ; a Dream CONTENTS .
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Oliver Goldsmith. ESSAY V. The Fountain of Fine Sense ; a Dream . [ Now first collected . ] ......... VI . Account of Carolan , the Irish Bard ......... PAGE 195 198 VII . A Visit to Vauxhall - Parallel between Mrs. Vincent and Miss ...
Oliver Goldsmith. ESSAY V. The Fountain of Fine Sense ; a Dream . [ Now first collected . ] ......... VI . Account of Carolan , the Irish Bard ......... PAGE 195 198 VII . A Visit to Vauxhall - Parallel between Mrs. Vincent and Miss ...
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... sense justice is distinguished from equity ; but there is a justice still more extensive , and which can be shown to embrace all the virtues united . Justice may be defined , that virtue which impels us to give to every person what is ...
... sense justice is distinguished from equity ; but there is a justice still more extensive , and which can be shown to embrace all the virtues united . Justice may be defined , that virtue which impels us to give to every person what is ...
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... sense only approve . ( 1 ) Thus , lest he should rise in rapture at any thing new , he keeps down every passion but pride and self - importance ; approves with phlegm , and the poor author is damned in the taking a pinch of snuff ...
... sense only approve . ( 1 ) Thus , lest he should rise in rapture at any thing new , he keeps down every passion but pride and self - importance ; approves with phlegm , and the poor author is damned in the taking a pinch of snuff ...
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... sense will at once confess , that he had reason in what he said , and that a purse of two thousand guineas is much more serviceable than a picture . Should we follow the same method of state frugality in other respects , what numberless ...
... sense will at once confess , that he had reason in what he said , and that a purse of two thousand guineas is much more serviceable than a picture . Should we follow the same method of state frugality in other respects , what numberless ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 296 - 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...
Страница 317 - 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.
Страница 525 - 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.
Страница 274 - Carmine qui tragico vilem certavit ob hircum, 220 Mox etiam agrestes Satyros nudavit, et asper Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit : eo quod Illecebris erat et grata novitate morandus Spectator functusque sacris et potus et exlex.
Страница 303 - 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...
Страница 424 - The author, when unpatronked by the great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller. There cannot perhaps be imagined a combination more prejudicial to taste than this. It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much, as possible.
Страница 270 - 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.
Страница 424 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it.
Страница 69 - ... becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years ; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days.