 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 ページ
...designed for 'whatever calling he will. Above all things, let him never touch a romance or novel ; those paint beauty in colours more charming than nature...pictures of consummate bliss! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty and happiness which never existed ; to despise the little good which fortune... | |
 | 1809 - 612 ページ
...— " Above all things, never let your •on touch a romance or novel ; these paint beauty in colors more charming than nature ; and describe happiness...pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty and happiness, which never existed ; to despise the little good which fortune... | |
 | John Witherspoon - 1817 - 92 ページ
...Above all things," he observes, " never let him touch a romance or novel. These paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe happiness...pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty and happiness which never existed ; to despise the little good which fortune... | |
 | 1843 - 628 ページ
...directions relative to the education of his son. ' Above all things let him never touch a romance or a novel : these paint beauty in colours more charming...destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss /' '' This extract is sufficiently exact and circumstantial to be its own witness. I have, therefore,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 ページ
...carefully inculcated, let him be designed for whatever calling he will. Above all things, let him never touch a romance or novel ; these paint beauty in colours...pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty and happiness which never existed ; to despise the little good which fortune... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 ページ
...carefully inculcated, let him be designed for whatever calling he will. Above all things, let him never aposiopesis of modern tragedy. The fifth act began,...trumpets sounding, mobs hallooing, carpets spreading, mind to sigh afler beauty and happiness which never existed ; to despise the little good which fortune... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 ページ
...carefully inculcated, let him be designed for whatever calling he will. "Above all things, let him never touch a romance or novel; these paint beauty in colours...pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty and happiness that never existed ; to despise the little good which fortune... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 578 ページ
...in one of Goldsmith's letters to his brother :—" Above all things," he says, "let your boy never touch a romance or novel; these paint beauty in colours...pictures of consummate bliss! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty and happiness which never existed; to despise the little good which fortune... | |
 | 1837 - 536 ページ
...carefully inculcated, let him be designed for whatever calling he will. "Above all things, let him never touch a romance or novel; these paint beauty in colours...pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty and happiness that never existed ; to despise the little good which fortune... | |
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Above all things, let him never touch a romance or novel : these paint beauty in colours more charming than nature, and describe happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive, are those pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful... 
