The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volumen 2J. Murray, 1837 |
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... popular . Johnson himself was silent . Churchill had just expired ; one of those poets who though of such reputation among his contemporaries as to be termed in a memoir written in the preceding year " the greatest English poet now ...
... popular . Johnson himself was silent . Churchill had just expired ; one of those poets who though of such reputation among his contemporaries as to be termed in a memoir written in the preceding year " the greatest English poet now ...
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... popular models of the preceding age , which having undergone the test of time and given pleasure to every description of reader , he thought might be safely followed as the best . So likewise thought Dr. Johnson . Public opinion sided ...
... popular models of the preceding age , which having undergone the test of time and given pleasure to every description of reader , he thought might be safely followed as the best . So likewise thought Dr. Johnson . Public opinion sided ...
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... popular , or in other words to study the people . A complimentary notice of the Odes * The ridicule attempted to be cast upon him by Colman and other wits of the day in " Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion , " will not be forgotten by the ...
... popular , or in other words to study the people . A complimentary notice of the Odes * The ridicule attempted to be cast upon him by Colman and other wits of the day in " Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion , " will not be forgotten by the ...
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... popular , a worthy though friend- less clergyman . Allusions to the motive took place in conversation with his friends , and afterwards found its way into the newspapers ; in a paragraph in imitation of a paper of Swift , where among ...
... popular , a worthy though friend- less clergyman . Allusions to the motive took place in conversation with his friends , and afterwards found its way into the newspapers ; in a paragraph in imitation of a paper of Swift , where among ...
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... popular , that even his name becomes nearly a bar to competition . All the stronger points admitting of poetical description had been seized by him ; the features of the country , her mountains , views , groves , and fields , none of ...
... popular , that even his name becomes nearly a bar to competition . All the stronger points admitting of poetical description had been seized by him ; the features of the country , her mountains , views , groves , and fields , none of ...
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Página 244 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Página 30 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Página 266 - Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. 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...
Página 274 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Página 555 - And steady loyalty and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Página 81 - Twas Edwin's self that prest ! " Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee ! " Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign : And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine ? " No, never from this hour to part, Well live and love so true ; The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Página 113 - THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Página 205 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
Página 168 - With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious bard, without complaint, may share This bustling season's epidemic care, Like...
Página 47 - But when contending chiefs blockade the throne.. Contracting regal power to stretch their own ; When I behold a factious band agree To call it freedom when themselves are free ; Each wanton judge new penal statutes draw, Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law ; The wealth of climes, where savage nations roam, Pillag'd from slaves to purchase slaves at home.