Works, כרך 11Putnam, 1851 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 6-10 מתוך 16
עמוד 202
... Political authorship . - Pecuniary temptation .-- Death of Newbery the elder . THOUGH Goldsmith's comedy was now in train to be performed , it could not be brought out before Christmas ; in the meantime , he must live . Again ...
... Political authorship . - Pecuniary temptation .-- Death of Newbery the elder . THOUGH Goldsmith's comedy was now in train to be performed , it could not be brought out before Christmas ; in the meantime , he must live . Again ...
עמוד 204
... political excitement . The public mind was agitated by the question of American taxa- tion , and other questions of like irritating tendency . Junius and Wilkes and other powerful writers were attacking the admin- istration with all ...
... political excitement . The public mind was agitated by the question of American taxa- tion , and other questions of like irritating tendency . Junius and Wilkes and other powerful writers were attacking the admin- istration with all ...
עמוד 205
... political subserviency had been rewarded by two fat crown livings , used to make , what he considered , a good story out of this embassy to the poet . " I found him , " said he , " in a miserable suit of cham- bers in the Temple . I ...
... political subserviency had been rewarded by two fat crown livings , used to make , what he considered , a good story out of this embassy to the poet . " I found him , " said he , " in a miserable suit of cham- bers in the Temple . I ...
עמוד 265
... political excitement ; to give it still greater effect and currency he engaged Goldsmith to intro- duce it with a prefatory life of Lord Bolingbroke . About this time Goldsmith's friend and countryman , Lord Clare , was in great ...
... political excitement ; to give it still greater effect and currency he engaged Goldsmith to intro- duce it with a prefatory life of Lord Bolingbroke . About this time Goldsmith's friend and countryman , Lord Clare , was in great ...
עמוד 266
... political turmoil , and introducing a work intended to be thrown into the arena of politics , main- tained that freedom from party prejudice observable in all the writings of Goldsmith . It was a selection of facts , drawn from many ...
... political turmoil , and introducing a work intended to be thrown into the arena of politics , main- tained that freedom from party prejudice observable in all the writings of Goldsmith . It was a selection of facts , drawn from many ...
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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
קטעים בולטים
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.