The Works of Washington Irving: Oliver GoldsmithGeorge P. Putnam, 1851 |
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... Political authorship . — Pecuniary temptation . - Death of Newbery the elder , • 202 CHAPTER XXII . Theatrical manoeuvering . - The comedy of " False Delicacy . " - First perform- ance of " The Good - natured Man . " - Conduct of ...
... Political authorship . — Pecuniary temptation . - Death of Newbery the elder , • 202 CHAPTER XXII . Theatrical manoeuvering . - The comedy of " False Delicacy . " - First perform- ance of " The Good - natured Man . " - Conduct of ...
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... politics , and are praised : men , sir , who had they been bred cobblers , would all their lives only have mended shoes , but never made them . " " Finding " ( says George ) " that there was no great degree of gentility affixed to the ...
... politics , and are praised : men , sir , who had they been bred cobblers , would all their lives only have mended shoes , but never made them . " " Finding " ( says George ) " that there was no great degree of gentility affixed to the ...
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... politics and been Under Secretary to Hamilton at Dublin , but was again a writer for the booksellers , and as yet but in the dawning of his fame . Dr. Nugent was his father - in - law , a Roman Catholic , and a physician of talent and ...
... politics and been Under Secretary to Hamilton at Dublin , but was again a writer for the booksellers , and as yet but in the dawning of his fame . Dr. Nugent was his father - in - law , a Roman Catholic , and a physician of talent and ...
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... loose about him . But his conversation was so rich , so animated , and so forcible , and his religious and political notions so congenial with those in LANGI ON AND BEAUCLERC . 153 which Langton had been 152 OLIVER GOLDSMITH .
... loose about him . But his conversation was so rich , so animated , and so forcible , and his religious and political notions so congenial with those in LANGI ON AND BEAUCLERC . 153 which Langton had been 152 OLIVER GOLDSMITH .
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... political scribblers of the day . With a patron of this jovial tem- perament , Goldsmith probably felt more at ease than with those if higher refinement . The celebrity which Goldsmith had acquired by his poem of The Traveller ...
... political scribblers of the day . With a patron of this jovial tem- perament , Goldsmith probably felt more at ease than with those if higher refinement . The celebrity which Goldsmith had acquired by his poem of The Traveller ...
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acquaintance admiration amusing anecdote appeared Ballymahon Beauclerc beautiful Bennet Langton bookseller Boswell brother Henry Burke CHAPTER character club Colman comedy companion conversation Cradock David Garrick dear delighted dinner doctor fame feeling fortune Francis Newbery friends Garrick gave genius gentleman give Gold Good-natured Green Arbor guinea heart heedless History honor Horneck humor Ireland Irish Jessamy Bride Johnson kind lady Langton laugh learned letter Lissoy literary London Lord Lord Charlemont manner merits mind nature never Newbery Northumberland House occasion OLIVER GOLDSMITH person picture play poem poet poetical poetry poor Goldsmith pounds poverty present purse replied river Inny says Sir Joshua Reynolds society soon spirit Stoops to Conquer talent talk Temple thing thought tion told took town Traveller uncle Contarine Vicar of Wakefield Village whimsical William Filby writings
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249 페이지 - ... bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
223 페이지 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. The service past, around the pious man, With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran; E'en children follow'd, with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile...
249 페이지 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
250 페이지 - Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
23 페이지 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
161 페이지 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated.
21 페이지 - More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train...
122 페이지 - HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack; He led such a damnable life in this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back.
288 페이지 - Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall with a black lead pencil.
234 페이지 - Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.