The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volume 2John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1837 |
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... " Hope , like the gleaming taper's light , Adorns and cheers our way ; And still , as darker grows the night , Emits a brighter ray . " * The silence of Bishop Percy regarding not only the Captivity THE CAPTIVITY . 5.
... " Hope , like the gleaming taper's light , Adorns and cheers our way ; And still , as darker grows the night , Emits a brighter ray . " * The silence of Bishop Percy regarding not only the Captivity THE CAPTIVITY . 5.
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From a Variety of Original Sources Sir James Prior. The silence of Bishop Percy regarding not only the Captivity but other works , is to be attributed to forgetfulness , or the displacement of his papers , as it appears he was fully ...
From a Variety of Original Sources Sir James Prior. The silence of Bishop Percy regarding not only the Captivity but other works , is to be attributed to forgetfulness , or the displacement of his papers , as it appears he was fully ...
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... Bishop writes- " Your obliging letter was received this morn- ing and merits my best thanks , which I could not defer presenting a moment . Yet I fear you will have reason to repent of your readiness to serve your ... BISHOP PERCY . 7.
... Bishop writes- " Your obliging letter was received this morn- ing and merits my best thanks , which I could not defer presenting a moment . Yet I fear you will have reason to repent of your readiness to serve your ... BISHOP PERCY . 7.
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... Bishop Percy , Malone in a note to Boswell's Johnson , and all the memoir writers give the date 1765 , though the publication took place in the middle of December 1764 , the error arising no doubt from 1765 being printed in the title ...
... Bishop Percy , Malone in a note to Boswell's Johnson , and all the memoir writers give the date 1765 , though the publication took place in the middle of December 1764 , the error arising no doubt from 1765 being printed in the title ...
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... an ornament to his church . He assisted and instructed the poor of what- ever faith. * From MS . letters to Mr. Malone politely communicated by Dr. H. U. Thomson . taste . * Upon this work it appears Sir Walter BISHOP PERCY . 77.
... an ornament to his church . He assisted and instructed the poor of what- ever faith. * From MS . letters to Mr. Malone politely communicated by Dr. H. U. Thomson . taste . * Upon this work it appears Sir Walter BISHOP PERCY . 77.
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Page 261 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 242 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Page 264 - Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school...
Page 29 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 79 - Twas Edwin's self that prest ! " Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee ! " Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign : And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine ? " No, never from this hour to part, Well live and love so true ; The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Page 111 - THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Page 203 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
Page 456 - I'll make Goldsmith forgive me;" and then called to him in a loud voice, "Dr. Goldsmith, — something passed to-day where you and I dined ; I ask your pardon." Goldsmith answered placidly, "It must be much from you, Sir, that I take ill.
Page 272 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 251 - Ye mute companions of my toils, that bear In all my griefs a more than equal share...