Works, כרך 11Putnam, 1851 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 24
עמוד xii
... - Disappointment . - Negligent authorship . - Application for a pension . - Beattie's Essay on Truth . - Public adulation . - A high - minded rebuke , 347 CONTENTS . xiii CHAPTER XLIII . Toil without hope . zli CONTENTS .
... - Disappointment . - Negligent authorship . - Application for a pension . - Beattie's Essay on Truth . - Public adulation . - A high - minded rebuke , 347 CONTENTS . xiii CHAPTER XLIII . Toil without hope . zli CONTENTS .
עמוד xiii
Washington Irving. CONTENTS . xiii CHAPTER XLIII . Toil without hope . - The Poet in the green - room - in the flower garden- at Vauxhall - dissipation without gayety . - Cradock in town - friendly sympathy - a parting scene - an ...
Washington Irving. CONTENTS . xiii CHAPTER XLIII . Toil without hope . - The Poet in the green - room - in the flower garden- at Vauxhall - dissipation without gayety . - Cradock in town - friendly sympathy - a parting scene - an ...
עמוד 22
... hope , and he tasked his slender means to the utmost in edu- cating him for a learned and distinguished career . Oliver was the second son , and seven years younger than Henry , who was the guide and protector of his childhood , and to ...
... hope , and he tasked his slender means to the utmost in edu- cating him for a learned and distinguished career . Oliver was the second son , and seven years younger than Henry , who was the guide and protector of his childhood , and to ...
עמוד 50
... hope of softening such a sordid heart , I again renewed the tale of my distress , and asking how he thought I could tra- vel above a hundred miles upon one half crown ? ' I begged to borrow a single guinea , which I assured him should ...
... hope of softening such a sordid heart , I again renewed the tale of my distress , and asking how he thought I could tra- vel above a hundred miles upon one half crown ? ' I begged to borrow a single guinea , which I assured him should ...
עמוד 64
... hope I shall ever trouble you for ; ' tis £ 20 . And now , dear Sir , let me here acknowledge the humility of the station in which you found me ; let me tell how I was despised by most , and hateful to myself . Poverty , hopeless ...
... hope I shall ever trouble you for ; ' tis £ 20 . And now , dear Sir , let me here acknowledge the humility of the station in which you found me ; let me tell how I was despised by most , and hateful to myself . Poverty , hopeless ...
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acquaintance amusement anecdote appeared Ballymahon Beauclerc beautiful Bennet Langton bookseller Boswell brother Henry Burke CHAPTER character club Colman comedy conversation Cradock David Garrick dear delight dinner doctor fame favor feeling fortune Francis Newbery friends furnished Garrick gave genius gentleman give Gold Good-natured Green Arbor guinea heart heedless History honor Horneck humor Ireland Irish Jessamy Bride Johnson jokes 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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עמוד 247 - ... 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...
עמוד 21 - More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train...
עמוד 159 - 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.
עמוד 288 - 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.
עמוד 221 - 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, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
עמוד 79 - Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! Poor houseless creatures ! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.
עמוד 134 - Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
עמוד 194 - By this time my curiosity began to abate, and my appetite to increase ; the company of fools may at first make us smile, but at last never fails of rendering us melancholy. I therefore pretended to recollect a prior engagement, and after having...
עמוד 189 - Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner; but no man alive has a more tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin.
עמוד 167 - I could say nothing but that I had a brother there, a clergyman, that stood in need of help: as for myself, I have no dependence on the promises of great men: I look to the booksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.