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Sivu ix
... comedy of " False Delicacy . " - First perform- ance of " The Good - natured Man . " - Conduct of Johnson . - Conduct of the author . - Intermeddling of the press , 206 CHAPTER XXIII . Burning the candle at both ends . - Fine apartments ...
... comedy of " False Delicacy . " - First perform- ance of " The Good - natured Man . " - Conduct of Johnson . - Conduct of the author . - Intermeddling of the press , 206 CHAPTER XXIII . Burning the candle at both ends . - Fine apartments ...
Sivu xi
... Comedy . - Goldsmith at Barton . - Practical jokes at the expense of his toilet . - Amusements at Barton . - Aquatic misadven- ture , · 275 CHAPTER XXXIII . Dinner at General Oglethorpe's . - Anecdotes of the general . - Dispute about ...
... Comedy . - Goldsmith at Barton . - Practical jokes at the expense of his toilet . - Amusements at Barton . - Aquatic misadven- ture , · 275 CHAPTER XXXIII . Dinner at General Oglethorpe's . - Anecdotes of the general . - Dispute about ...
Sivu xii
... comedy . - Agitation of the author . - Success . - Colman squibbed out of town . 309 CHAPTER XXXVIII . A newspaper attack . - The Evans affray . - Johnson's comment , CHAPTER XXXIX . 321 Boswell in Holy - Week . - Dinner at Oglethorpe's ...
... comedy . - Agitation of the author . - Success . - Colman squibbed out of town . 309 CHAPTER XXXVIII . A newspaper attack . - The Evans affray . - Johnson's comment , CHAPTER XXXIX . 321 Boswell in Holy - Week . - Dinner at Oglethorpe's ...
Sivu 29
... of ludicrous blunders and cross purposes drama- tized many years afterward in his admirable comedy of " She Stoops to Conquer , or the Mistakes of a Night . " CHAPTER II . Improvident marriages in the Goldsmith family .
... of ludicrous blunders and cross purposes drama- tized many years afterward in his admirable comedy of " She Stoops to Conquer , or the Mistakes of a Night . " CHAPTER II . Improvident marriages in the Goldsmith family .
Sivu 78
... comedy at a country town in Kent . This accords with his last shift of the Philo- sophic Vagabond , and with the knowledge of country theatricals displayed in his " Adventures of a Strolling Player , " or may be a story suggested by ...
... comedy at a country town in Kent . This accords with his last shift of the Philo- sophic Vagabond , and with the knowledge of country theatricals displayed in his " Adventures of a Strolling Player , " or may be a story suggested by ...
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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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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.