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... tion to generation . Such was the case with the Goldsmiths . " They were always , " according to their own accounts , a strange family ; they rarely acted like other people ; their hearts were in the right place , but their heads seemed ...
... tion to generation . Such was the case with the Goldsmiths . " They were always , " according to their own accounts , a strange family ; they rarely acted like other people ; their hearts were in the right place , but their heads seemed ...
Sivu 24
... tion to dabble in poetry , and this likewise was caught by his pupil . Before he was eight years old Goldsmith had contracted a habit of scribbling verses on small scraps of paper , which , in a little while , he would throw into the ...
... tion to dabble in poetry , and this likewise was caught by his pupil . Before he was eight years old Goldsmith had contracted a habit of scribbling verses on small scraps of paper , which , in a little while , he would throw into the ...
Sivu 31
... tion of four hundred pounds , that his daughter might not be said to have entered her husband's family empty - handed . To raise the sum in cash was impossible ; but he assigned to Mr. Hodson his little farm and the income of his tithes ...
... tion of four hundred pounds , that his daughter might not be said to have entered her husband's family empty - handed . To raise the sum in cash was impossible ; but he assigned to Mr. Hodson his little farm and the income of his tithes ...
Sivu 34
... tion to social enjoyment . He endeavored to persuade himself that learning and dulness went hand in hand , and that genius was not to be put in harness . Even in riper years , when the consciousness of his own deficiencies ought to have ...
... tion to social enjoyment . He endeavored to persuade himself that learning and dulness went hand in hand , and that genius was not to be put in harness . Even in riper years , when the consciousness of his own deficiencies ought to have ...
Sivu 45
... the scarlet breeches to have been the fundamental objec- tion . " My friends , " says Goldsmith , speaking through his humorous representative , the " Man in Black " - " my friends were now perfectly satisfied I was undone ; and yet they.
... the scarlet breeches to have been the fundamental objec- tion . " My friends , " says Goldsmith , speaking through his humorous representative , the " Man in Black " - " my friends were now perfectly satisfied I was undone ; and yet they.
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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.