The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volumen4J. Murray, 1854 |
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... play was acted in the beginning of the year 1718 : the public received it with the utmost indulgence ; it was played several nights without intermission , and still continues to be performed with the highest applause . The author ...
... play was acted in the beginning of the year 1718 : the public received it with the utmost indulgence ; it was played several nights without intermission , and still continues to be performed with the highest applause . The author ...
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... plays which are supported by party : it languished four nights , and then sunk into oblivion . This was a conquest Voltaire's most sanguine hopes could not have suggested : however , such was his ambition , that he was not merely ...
... plays which are supported by party : it languished four nights , and then sunk into oblivion . This was a conquest Voltaire's most sanguine hopes could not have suggested : however , such was his ambition , that he was not merely ...
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... plays are like the English puddings ; nobody has any taste for them but themselves . " - Fanshaw , in SPENCE'S Anecdotes , ed . Singer , p . 330 . poet with some degree of applause , 1 and opened 0 2 MEMOIRS OF M. DE VOLTAIRE . 19.
... plays are like the English puddings ; nobody has any taste for them but themselves . " - Fanshaw , in SPENCE'S Anecdotes , ed . Singer , p . 330 . poet with some degree of applause , 1 and opened 0 2 MEMOIRS OF M. DE VOLTAIRE . 19.
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... play he accordingly wrote in English , and communicated it to his friends for their approbation . It was somewhat surprising to find a stranger , who had resided in the country but one year , attempt so arduous an undertaking ; but ...
... play he accordingly wrote in English , and communicated it to his friends for their approbation . It was somewhat surprising to find a stranger , who had resided in the country but one year , attempt so arduous an undertaking ; but ...
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... plays , a tobacco box , and a fiddle , which had engaged more of his attention than either the public or private lectures . But as this , as well as the other , could afford neither entertainment nor edification , they were purposely ...
... plays , a tobacco box , and a fiddle , which had engaged more of his attention than either the public or private lectures . But as this , as well as the other , could afford neither entertainment nor edification , they were purposely ...
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Página 234 - CHRISTMAS EVE, and twelve of the clock. " Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearthside ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave in these years ! Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas Eve, " Come ; see the oxen kneel " In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him...
Página 313 - To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat In loose numbers wildly sweet Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, Th' unconquerable Mind, and Freedom's holy flame.
Página 32 - I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or at other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter.
Página 222 - Of all men, Goldsmith is the most unfit to go out upon such an inquiry ; for he is utterly ignorant of such arts as we already possess, and consequently could not know what would be accessions to our present stock of mechanical knowledge. Sir, he would bring home a grinding barrow, which you see in every street in London, and think that he had furnished a wonderful improvement.
Página 224 - Take up the White Man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild — Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man's Burden...
Página 404 - Padareen mare there one season than given in rewards to learned men since the time of Usher. All their productions in learning amount to perhaps a translation, or a few tracts in divinity, and all their productions in wit to just nothing at all. Why the plague, then, so fond of Ireland? Then, all at once, because you, my dear friend, and a few more who are exceptions to the general picture, have a residence there. This it is that gives me all the pangs I feel in separation. I confess I carry this...
Página 179 - Signed, sealed, published, and declared, by the said testator, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of OLIVER PRICE.
Página 88 - How such a one was strong, and such was bold, And such was fortunate, yet, each of old Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
Página 216 - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Página 158 - WHY should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire? What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this, Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is ? Was there another Troy for her...