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... Gold- smith , • 139 CHAPTER XIV . Hogarth a visitor at Islington - his character . - Street studies . - Sympathies between authors and painters . - Sir Joshua Reynolds - his character - his dinners . - The Literary Club - its members ...
... Gold- smith , • 139 CHAPTER XIV . Hogarth a visitor at Islington - his character . - Street studies . - Sympathies between authors and painters . - Sir Joshua Reynolds - his character - his dinners . - The Literary Club - its members ...
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... Gold- smith was born , and it was a birthplace worthy of a poet ; for , by all accounts , it was haunted ground . A tradition handed down among the neighboring peasantry states that , in after years , the house , remaining for some time ...
... Gold- smith was born , and it was a birthplace worthy of a poet ; for , by all accounts , it was haunted ground . A tradition handed down among the neighboring peasantry states that , in after years , the house , remaining for some time ...
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... gold . For this purpose he undertook to instruct us himself , and took as much care to form our morals as to improve our understanding . We were told that universal benevolence was what first cemented so- ciety we were taught to ...
... gold . For this purpose he undertook to instruct us himself , and took as much care to form our morals as to improve our understanding . We were told that universal benevolence was what first cemented so- ciety we were taught to ...
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... gold , with a shirt and neckcloth of a fort- night's wear . Poor Goldsmith endeavored to assume a prosperous air in the eyes of his early associate . " He was practising physic , " he said , " and doing very well ! " At this moment ...
... gold , with a shirt and neckcloth of a fort- night's wear . Poor Goldsmith endeavored to assume a prosperous air in the eyes of his early associate . " He was practising physic , " he said , " and doing very well ! " At this moment ...
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... - cism on the performance . " From the graphic description given of him by Dr. Farr , it will be perceived that the tarnished finery of green and gold had A TRAGEDY IN EMBRYO . 83 been succeeded by a 82 OLIVER GOLDSMITH . 32.
... - cism on the performance . " From the graphic description given of him by Dr. Farr , it will be perceived that the tarnished finery of green and gold had A TRAGEDY IN EMBRYO . 83 been succeeded by a 82 OLIVER GOLDSMITH . 32.
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Sivu 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...
Sivu 21 - More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.