The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: The bee. Essays. An enquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductionsJohn Murray, Albemarle Street, 1837 |
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... consider myself in the country which was once so formidable in war , and spread terror and desolation over the whole Roman empire , I can hardly account for the present wretchedness and pusillanimity of its inhabi- tants - a prey to ...
... consider myself in the country which was once so formidable in war , and spread terror and desolation over the whole Roman empire , I can hardly account for the present wretchedness and pusillanimity of its inhabi- tants - a prey to ...
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... considers that money was never so scarce as it is she seems resolved to keep what she has to herself . She is ugly enough you see ; yet , I assure you , she has refused several offers to my own knowledge , within this twelvemonth . Let ...
... considers that money was never so scarce as it is she seems resolved to keep what she has to herself . She is ugly enough you see ; yet , I assure you , she has refused several offers to my own knowledge , within this twelvemonth . Let ...
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... considering things in a prudential light , perhaps I was mistaken in designing my paper as an agreeable relaxa- tion to the studious , or a help to conversation among the gay ; instead of addressing it to such , I should have writ- ten ...
... considering things in a prudential light , perhaps I was mistaken in designing my paper as an agreeable relaxa- tion to the studious , or a help to conversation among the gay ; instead of addressing it to such , I should have writ- ten ...
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... consider dress betimes , and they are regarded , even at school , with contempt , who do not appear as genteel as the rest . Education should teach us to be- come useful , sober , disinterested , and laborious members of society ; but ...
... consider dress betimes , and they are regarded , even at school , with contempt , who do not appear as genteel as the rest . Education should teach us to be- come useful , sober , disinterested , and laborious members of society ; but ...
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... considering that I carried a number of the BEE under my arm , I was resolved to open it in his eyes , and dazzle him with the splendour of the page . He read the title and con- tents , however , without any emotion , and assured me he ...
... considering that I carried a number of the BEE under my arm , I was resolved to open it in his eyes , and dazzle him with the splendour of the page . He read the title and con- tents , however , without any emotion , and assured me he ...
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Страница 298 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 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 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...
Страница xi - 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 ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor...
Страница 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.
Страница 298 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 40 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Страница 290 - ... mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise. O how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare That glows within my ravish'd heart? But Thou canst read it there. Thy Providence my life sustain'd, And all my wants redrest; When in the silent womb I lay, And hung upon the breast.
Страница 227 - Thee, too, my Paridel ! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness.
Страница 438 - 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.