The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, including a variety of pieces now first collected by J. Prior, Volume 11853 |
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... scarcely see a coxcomb or a fool in common life , that has not some peculiar oddity in his action . These peculiari- ties it is not in the power of words to represent , and depend solely upon the actor . They give a relish to the humor ...
... scarcely see a coxcomb or a fool in common life , that has not some peculiar oddity in his action . These peculiari- ties it is not in the power of words to represent , and depend solely upon the actor . They give a relish to the humor ...
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... scarcely seven years old , being at dinner with the queen his mother , intending to give a bit of bread to a great dog he was fond of , this hungry animal snapt too greedily at the morsel , and bit his hand in a terrible manner . The ...
... scarcely seven years old , being at dinner with the queen his mother , intending to give a bit of bread to a great dog he was fond of , this hungry animal snapt too greedily at the morsel , and bit his hand in a terrible manner . The ...
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... scarcely any motion of the arm ; her hands and her tongue never set out together ; but the one pre- pares us for the other . She sometimes begins with a mute , elo- quent attitude ; but never goes forward all at once with hands , eyes ...
... scarcely any motion of the arm ; her hands and her tongue never set out together ; but the one pre- pares us for the other . She sometimes begins with a mute , elo- quent attitude ; but never goes forward all at once with hands , eyes ...
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... scarcely any who are not in some de- gree possessed of this pleasing softness ; but it is at best but a short - lived passion , and seldom affords distress more than transi- tory assistance . With some it scarcely lasts from the first ...
... scarcely any who are not in some de- gree possessed of this pleasing softness ; but it is at best but a short - lived passion , and seldom affords distress more than transi- tory assistance . With some it scarcely lasts from the first ...
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... Virtus est medium , vitiorum , et utrinque reductum . - HOR . * [ " For virtue in a medium lies , From whence these different follies rise . " - FRANCIS . ] . THE FAME MACHINE ; A Reverie . * Scarcely a UPON POLITICAL FRUGALITY . 93.
... Virtus est medium , vitiorum , et utrinque reductum . - HOR . * [ " For virtue in a medium lies , From whence these different follies rise . " - FRANCIS . ] . THE FAME MACHINE ; A Reverie . * Scarcely a UPON POLITICAL FRUGALITY . 93.
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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.