Oliver Goldsmith, a BiographyMacmillan, 1903 - 303 strani |
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... story of how an American made his way into the world of letters and founded a literature . In 1783 , the year of his birth , there were no American writers who commanded attention beyond the locality in which they happened to live ...
... story of how an American made his way into the world of letters and founded a literature . In 1783 , the year of his birth , there were no American writers who commanded attention beyond the locality in which they happened to live ...
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... - the sketch or short story - to avoid falling into the school or manner of any other writer . † A period of de- † Ibid . , II . , 64 . * Life and Letters , I. , 318 . 99 pression nevertheless followed ; he felt " isolated in.
... - the sketch or short story - to avoid falling into the school or manner of any other writer . † A period of de- † Ibid . , II . , 64 . * Life and Letters , I. , 318 . 99 pression nevertheless followed ; he felt " isolated in.
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... stories that Irving published as the " Adventures " of the captain . Literary work was again interrupted by the appointment as Minister to Spain . The office proved more exacting than Irving had expected . It was a delicate mission ...
... stories that Irving published as the " Adventures " of the captain . Literary work was again interrupted by the appointment as Minister to Spain . The office proved more exacting than Irving had expected . It was a delicate mission ...
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... story tends to scatter the halo which the text - books have cast around some well - known characters , a useful purpose will be served by showing that the great writers of the past are great mainly because they can be approached and ...
... story tends to scatter the halo which the text - books have cast around some well - known characters , a useful purpose will be served by showing that the great writers of the past are great mainly because they can be approached and ...
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... story . Many of his most ludicrous scenes and ridiculous incidents have been drawn from his own blunders and mis- chances , and he seems really to have been buffeted into almost every maxim imparted by him for the instruction of his ...
... story . Many of his most ludicrous scenes and ridiculous incidents have been drawn from his own blunders and mis- chances , and he seems really to have been buffeted into almost every maxim imparted by him for the instruction of his ...
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Stran 9 - 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.
Stran 111 - 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 176 - 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 8 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
Stran 266 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, .He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; Still bom to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Stran 207 - Mr. Mickle, the translator of The 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.
Stran 111 - The wretch, condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies ; And every pang that rends the heart, Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
Stran 24 - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart, untravell'd, fondly turns to thee : Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Stran 177 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate: But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; 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.
Stran 125 - She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as moved me. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can sooth her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.