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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... 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 happens 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 happens 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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... speak my mind , cousin Jeffery , I never liked tails ; for suppose a young fellow should be rude , and the lady should offer to step back in a fright , instead of retiring she treads upon her train , and falls fairly on her back ; and ...
... speak my mind , cousin Jeffery , I never liked tails ; for suppose a young fellow should be rude , and the lady should offer to step back in a fright , instead of retiring she treads upon her train , and falls fairly on her back ; and ...
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... speak of her beauty , her knowledge , and her virtue . Nay , so much harmony reigns in their accounts of this prodigy of perfection , that , in spite of the opposition of their faith , we should never have been able to judge of what ...
... speak of her beauty , her knowledge , and her virtue . Nay , so much harmony reigns in their accounts of this prodigy of perfection , that , in spite of the opposition of their faith , we should never have been able to judge of what ...
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... speaking , is the only virtue , and all the rest have their origin in it . The qualities of candour , fortitude , charity , and gene- rosity , for instance , are not , in their own nature , virtues ; and , if ever they deserve the title ...
... speaking , is the only virtue , and all the rest have their origin in it . The qualities of candour , fortitude , charity , and gene- rosity , for instance , are not , in their own nature , virtues ; and , if ever they deserve the title ...
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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...
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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.