The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.W. Durell; J. Seymour, printer, 1809 |
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... excellence , which may amuse and serve to animate our enquiry . In deviat- ing from others , in following an unbeaten road , though we perhaps may never arrive at the wished - for object ; yet it is possible we may meet several ...
... excellence , which may amuse and serve to animate our enquiry . In deviat- ing from others , in following an unbeaten road , though we perhaps may never arrive at the wished - for object ; yet it is possible we may meet several ...
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... excellence , our reputation , our friends , and our all must be ventured ; by aiming only at me- diocrity we run no risque , and we do little service . Prudence and greatness are ever persuading us to contrary pursuits . The one ...
... excellence , our reputation , our friends , and our all must be ventured ; by aiming only at me- diocrity we run no risque , and we do little service . Prudence and greatness are ever persuading us to contrary pursuits . The one ...
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... excellence of the sculptor than the writer . How happy were it now , if men of real excellence in that profession were to arise ! Were the painters af Italy now to appear , who once wandered like beggars from one city to another , and ...
... excellence of the sculptor than the writer . How happy were it now , if men of real excellence in that profession were to arise ! Were the painters af Italy now to appear , who once wandered like beggars from one city to another , and ...
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... excellence in this way are so pleasing , that numbers have written professed treatises to teach us the art ; schools have been esta- blished with no other intent ; rhetoric has taken place among the institutions , and pedants have ...
... excellence in this way are so pleasing , that numbers have written professed treatises to teach us the art ; schools have been esta- blished with no other intent ; rhetoric has taken place among the institutions , and pedants have ...
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... excellence of the Bangorian controversy , and the absurdity of an inter- mediate state . The spruce preacher reads his lucu- bration without lifting his nose from the text , and ne- ver ventures to earn the shame of an enthusiast . By ...
... excellence of the Bangorian controversy , and the absurdity of an inter- mediate state . The spruce preacher reads his lucu- bration without lifting his nose from the text , and ne- ver ventures to earn the shame of an enthusiast . By ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 281 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Seite 281 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Seite 69 - I destroyed this, and the insect set about another. When I destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together, but cautiously watching all the time ; when a fly happened to approach sufficiently near, it would dart out all at once, and often seize its prey.
Seite 298 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's...
Seite 281 - The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more...
Seite 90 - This was a very grave personage, whom at some distance I took for one of the most reserved, and even disagreeable, figures I had seen ; but as he approached his appearance improved, and when I could distinguish him thoroughly, I perceived that, in spite of the severity of his brow, he had one of the most good-natured countenances that could be imagined.
Seite 281 - No traveller returns! — puzzles the will; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of.
Seite 68 - Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost impatience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute...
Seite 66 - ... nature for a state of war, not only upon other insects, but upon each other. For this state nature seems perfectly well to have formed it. Its head and breast are covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin, which eludes the sting even of a wasp.
Seite 68 - In three days the web was with incredible diligence completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode. It frequently traversed it round, examined the strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and came out very frequently.