Works, Nide 11Putnam, 1851 |
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Sivu 47
... dear mother , if you will sit down and calmly listen to what I say , you shall be fully resolved in every one of those many questions you have asked me . I went to Cork and con- verted my horse , which you prize so much higher than ...
... dear mother , if you will sit down and calmly listen to what I say , you shall be fully resolved in every one of those many questions you have asked me . I went to Cork and con- verted my horse , which you prize so much higher than ...
Sivu 51
... dear mother , I found sufficient to reconcile me to all my follies ; for here I spent three whole days . The counsellor had two sweet girls to his daughters , who played en- chantingly on the harpsichord ; and yet it was but a ...
... dear mother , I found sufficient to reconcile me to all my follies ; for here I spent three whole days . The counsellor had two sweet girls to his daughters , who played en- chantingly on the harpsichord ; and yet it was but a ...
Sivu 58
... DEAR BOB , 66 Edinburgh , September 26th , 1753 . " How many good excuses ( and you know I was ever good at an excuse ) might I call up to vindicate my past shameful silence . I might tell how I wrote a long letter on my first coming ...
... DEAR BOB , 66 Edinburgh , September 26th , 1753 . " How many good excuses ( and you know I was ever good at an excuse ) might I call up to vindicate my past shameful silence . I might tell how I wrote a long letter on my first coming ...
Sivu 61
... dear Bob such blessings , while I may sit down and laugh at the world and at myself — the most ridiculous object in it . But you see I am grown downright splenetic , and perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer to this . I ...
... dear Bob such blessings , while I may sit down and laugh at the world and at myself — the most ridiculous object in it . But you see I am grown downright splenetic , and perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer to this . I ...
Sivu 64
... 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 poverty , was my lot , and Melancholy was beginning to make me ...
... 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 poverty , was my lot , and Melancholy was beginning to make me ...
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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.