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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... person celebrated for his wisdom , his valour , or his learning , lived . When he coasted along the shores of Greece , all the heroes , statesmen , orators , philosophers , and poets of those famed republics , rose in his memory , and ...
... person celebrated for his wisdom , his valour , or his learning , lived . When he coasted along the shores of Greece , all the heroes , statesmen , orators , philosophers , and poets of those famed republics , rose in his memory , and ...
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... person whom I can accuse for want of taste , will seldom become the object of my affections or admiration . But if this be a defect , what must be the entire perversion of scenical decorum , when , for instance , we see an actress ...
... person whom I can accuse for want of taste , will seldom become the object of my affections or admiration . But if this be a defect , what must be the entire perversion of scenical decorum , when , for instance , we see an actress ...
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... person of any partnership in his guilt . Need the sequel be related ? Alcander was acquitted , shared the friendship and the ho- nours of his friend Septimius , lived afterwards in happiness and ease , and left it to be engraved on his ...
... person of any partnership in his guilt . Need the sequel be related ? Alcander was acquitted , shared the friendship and the ho- nours of his friend Septimius , lived afterwards in happiness and ease , and left it to be engraved on his ...
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... person to such a degree , and loved retirement so much , that he has been more than once put on the list of modest beggars by the curates of Paris , when he retired to some private quarter of the town , in order to enjoy his medita ...
... person to such a degree , and loved retirement so much , that he has been more than once put on the list of modest beggars by the curates of Paris , when he retired to some private quarter of the town , in order to enjoy his medita ...
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... persons , they are perfectly well made , and the men particularly have a very engaging air . The greatest part of the boys whom I saw in the country had very white hair . They were as beautiful as Cupids , and there was something open ...
... persons , they are perfectly well made , and the men particularly have a very engaging air . The greatest part of the boys whom I saw in the country had very white hair . They were as beautiful as Cupids , and there was something open ...
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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.
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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.