Oliver Goldsmith: A BiographyScott, Foresman, 1904 - 413 strani |
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... whole literary history . He could look back to the time when American letters were not yet in existence , for he himself was the chief founder of them . Before his time , indeed , life in America had not been of a kind conducive to the ...
... whole literary history . He could look back to the time when American letters were not yet in existence , for he himself was the chief founder of them . Before his time , indeed , life in America had not been of a kind conducive to the ...
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... whole day . I feel almost appalled by such success , and fearful that it cannot be real , or that it is not fully merited , or that I shall not act up to the expectations that may be formed . We are whimsically constituted beings . I ...
... whole day . I feel almost appalled by such success , and fearful that it cannot be real , or that it is not fully merited , or that I shall not act up to the expectations that may be formed . We are whimsically constituted beings . I ...
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... whole of these seventeen years . He had never the slightest thought of a The return home . permanent residence abroad , and now that success had brought him an honorable name and an assured income , he rejoiced in them chiefly because ...
... whole of these seventeen years . He had never the slightest thought of a The return home . permanent residence abroad , and now that success had brought him an honorable name and an assured income , he rejoiced in them chiefly because ...
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... , that one such action is worth more than a whole row of volumes . Throughout Irving's long and varied life , we do not know that he ever cherished a single enmity or that he was ever mixed up in any of the petty 30 INTRODUCTION.
... , that one such action is worth more than a whole row of volumes . Throughout Irving's long and varied life , we do not know that he ever cherished a single enmity or that he was ever mixed up in any of the petty 30 INTRODUCTION.
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... whole life of the period of which Goldsmith was a part , to show the special conditions of race and environment which might explain the charac- ter of Goldsmith and his writings . This would be the method of the scientific or ...
... whole life of the period of which Goldsmith was a part , to show the special conditions of race and environment which might explain the charac- ter of Goldsmith and his writings . This would be the method of the scientific or ...
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Stran 40 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Stran 254 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm...
Stran 82 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Stran 386 - Twas only that when he was off, he was acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a day: Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick, If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
Stran 192 - I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. 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.
Stran 40 - Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Stran 279 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw. And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last.
Stran 264 - Robertson would be crushed with his own weight— would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and, whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...
Stran 61 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Stran 61 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...