The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces, 1권John Murray, 1837 |
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... affectation , tells you , that fools may admire , but men of sense only approve . ( 1 ) Thus , lest he should rise in rapture at any thing new , he keeps down every passion but pride and self - importance ; approves with phlegm , and ...
... affectation , tells you , that fools may admire , but men of sense only approve . ( 1 ) Thus , lest he should rise in rapture at any thing new , he keeps down every passion but pride and self - importance ; approves with phlegm , and ...
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... affectation . This has been attended with very disagree- able consequences . Nothing is so easy to copy as affecta- tion , and his lordship's rank and fame have procured him more imitators in Britain than any other writer I know ; all ...
... affectation . This has been attended with very disagree- able consequences . Nothing is so easy to copy as affecta- tion , and his lordship's rank and fame have procured him more imitators in Britain than any other writer I know ; all ...
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... affectation . Lulli , in France , first attempted the improvement of their music , which in general resembled that of our old solemn chaunts in churches . It is worthy of remark in ge- neral , that the music of every country is solemn ...
... affectation . Lulli , in France , first attempted the improvement of their music , which in general resembled that of our old solemn chaunts in churches . It is worthy of remark in ge- neral , that the music of every country is solemn ...
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... affectation ; for though a little of that manner is proper at all times , and is in fact the only thing in which the voice excels an instrument , yet , in plain singing , where acting is not required , it may some- times be carried to a ...
... affectation ; for though a little of that manner is proper at all times , and is in fact the only thing in which the voice excels an instrument , yet , in plain singing , where acting is not required , it may some- times be carried to a ...
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... affectation , folly , and intemperance ; our senses became so depraved , that our eyes were captivated with glare and glitter , and our ears with noise and clamour ; while our fancy dwelt with pleasure on every gewgaw of gothic ...
... affectation , folly , and intemperance ; our senses became so depraved , that our eyes were captivated with glare and glitter , and our ears with noise and clamour ; while our fancy dwelt with pleasure on every gewgaw of gothic ...
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311 페이지 - 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...
iii 페이지 - 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.
294 페이지 - 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...
317 페이지 - 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.
294 페이지 - 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...
301 페이지 - 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...
434 페이지 - It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much, as possible.
18 페이지 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
131 페이지 - The. passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
286 페이지 - ... 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.