The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, including a variety of pieces now first collected by J. Prior, Volume 11853 |
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... excellence , which may amuse and serve to animate pur inquiry . In deviating from others , in following an unbeaten road , though we perhaps may never arrive at the wished - for object , yet it is possible we may meet several ...
... excellence , which may amuse and serve to animate pur inquiry . In deviating from others , in following an unbeaten road , though we perhaps may never arrive at the wished - for object , yet it is possible we may meet several ...
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... excellence , our reputation , our friends , and our all must be ventured ; by aiming only at mediocrity , we run no risk , and we do little service . Prudence and greatness are ever per- suading us to contrary pursuits . The one ...
... excellence , our reputation , our friends , and our all must be ventured ; by aiming only at mediocrity , we run no risk , and we do little service . Prudence and greatness are ever per- suading us to contrary pursuits . The one ...
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... excellence of the sculptor than the writer . How happy were it now , if men of real excellence in that pro- fession were to arise ! Were the painters of Italy now to appear , who once wandered like beggars from one city to another , and ...
... excellence of the sculptor than the writer . How happy were it now , if men of real excellence in that pro- fession were to arise ! Were the painters of Italy now to appear , who once wandered like beggars from one city to another , and ...
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... excellence in this way are so pleasing , that numbers have written professed treatises to teach us the art ; schools have been established with no other intent ; rhetoric has taken place among the institutions , and pedants have ranged ...
... excellence in this way are so pleasing , that numbers have written professed treatises to teach us the art ; schools have been established with no other intent ; rhetoric has taken place among the institutions , and pedants have ranged ...
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... excellence of the Bangorian Controversy , * and the absurdity of an intermediate state . The spruce preacher reads his lucubration without lifting his nose from the text , and never ventures to earn the shame of an enthusiast . By this ...
... excellence of the Bangorian Controversy , * and the absurdity of an intermediate state . The spruce preacher reads his lucubration without lifting his nose from the text , and never ventures to earn the shame of an enthusiast . By this ...
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Page 306 - 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...
Page 324 - 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...
Page 535 - 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.
Page 9 - 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.
Page 306 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 306 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Page 306 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 329 - 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.
Page 280 - 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.
Page 551 - ... reader. There are some parts of it very fine ; and let them save the badness of the rest. PKEFACE " THE ROHAN HISTORY J FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY OF ROME TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE.