The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, 第 1 巻J. Murray, 1837 - 515 ページ |
他の版 - すべて表示
多く使われている語句
acquaintance admiration afterwards allusion amusement anecdote appears Ballymahon became believe Bishop Percy bookseller Boswell Burke character circumstances Cock Lane Ghost considered Contarine criticism doubt Dublin early Edgeworthstown England essays exhibited fame favour former frequently friends furnished genius gentleman George Primrose give Griffiths guineas Hodson honour humour inquiry Ireland Irish Isaac Reed John Newbery Johnson known labours lady Lady's Magazine letter likewise literary lived London Magazine manner memoir ment merit mind nature never Newbery notice obliged occasion occasional OLIVER GOLDSMITH opinion paper perhaps period person poem Poet poetry Polite Learning possessed probably profession published racter reader remarks reputation Review Roscommon says scarcely seems Smollett society spirit story supposed talents taste thing thought tion told Traveller Trinity College tutor Vicar of Wakefield Voltaire volumes Westmeath writer written youth
人気のある引用
499 ページ - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
442 ページ - When accompanying two beautiful young ladies ' with their mother on a tour in France, he was seriously angry that more attention was paid to them than to him...
342 ページ - This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children: he called himself their friend ; but he was the friend of all mankind.
20 ページ - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
443 ページ - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.
96 ページ - Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind, are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment. Teach, then, my dear sir, to your son thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes.
374 ページ - I fancy, Sir, this is the first time that he has been engaged in such an adventure." JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, I believe it is the first time he has beat; he may have been beaten before. This, Sir, is a new plume to him.
299 ページ - It is impossible to conceive how much may be done by a proper education at home. A boy, for instance, who understands perfectly well Latin, French, arithmetic, and the principles of the civil law, and can write a fine hand, has an education that may qualify him for any undertaking.
287 ページ - No sir, had I been a sharper, had I been possessed of less good nature and native generosity, I might surely now have been in better circumstances.
144 ページ - Straight envy began, in the shape of no less than three ladies who sat with me, to find faults in her faultless form. — ' For my part,' says the first, ' I think what I always thought, that the Duchess has too much of the red in her complexion.