The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volume 2Putnam, 1850 |
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety ..., Volume 2 Oliver Goldsmith,Sir James Prior Visualização integral - 1854 |
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety ..., Volume 2 Oliver Goldsmith Visualização integral - 1854 |
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety ..., Volume 2 Oliver Goldsmith,Sir James Prior Visualização integral - 1850 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
absurdity acquaintance Adieu admiration amusement appeared asafoetida auto-da-fé beauty ceremony China Chinese Circassia companion Confucius continued creature cried curiosity Daures dear desire despise distress dressed Drybone emperor endeavor England English entertainment Europe expected eyes face fancy favor fond fortune Fum Hoam genius gentleman give hand happiness heart heaven history of China hundred imagination inhabitants king lady laugh laws learning LETTER Lien Chi Altangi live look luxury mandarine mankind manner Mencius merit mind misery nation nature never obliged occasion once passion Pekin perceive Persian philosopher pity pleased pleasure poet polite possessed praise present prince proper rapture regard replied republic of letters resolved ridiculous says scarcely seemed slaves soon stranger sure surprised taste temple thought thousand thousand guineas Tibbs tion Tom D'Urfey traveller venison virtue Voltaire whole wisdom write Zoroaster
Passagens conhecidas
Página 226 - If they were all such as my Lord Mudler, one of the most good-natured creatures that ever squeezed a lemon, I should myself be among the number of their admirers. I was yesterday to dine at the Duchess of Piccadilly's; my lord was there.
Página 229 - By this time we were arrived as high as the stairs would permit us to ascend, till we came to what he was facetiously pleased to call the first floor down the chimney ; and knocking at the door, a voice from within demanded, who's there?
Página 117 - ... with affection and esteem ; he wound us up to be mere machines of pity, and rendered us incapable of withstanding the slightest impulse made either by real or fictitious distress. In a word, we were perfectly instructed in the art of giving away thousands before we were taught the necessary qualifications of getting a farthing.
Página 451 - The slightest misfortunes of the great, the most imaginary uneasinesses of the rich, are aggravated with all the power of eloquence, and held up to engage our attention and sympathetic sorrow. The poor weep unheeded, persecuted by every subordinate species of tyranny ; and every law, which gives others security, becomes an enemy to them.
Página 32 - ... is gratified by daily gazettes, as with us in China. But as in ours the emperor endeavours to instruct his people, in theirs the people endeavour to instruct the administration. You must not, however, imagine that they who compile these papers have any actual knowledge of the politics or the government of a state; they only collect their materials from the oracle of some coffee-house, which oracle has himself gathered them the night before from a beau at a gamingtable, who has pillaged his knowledge...
Página 457 - I killed the hare, and was bringing it away, when the justice himself met me ; he called me a poacher and a villain ; and, collaring me, desired I would give an account of myself. I...
Página 300 - The old man's passion for confinement is similar to that we all have for life. We are habituated to the prison, we look round with discontent, are displeased with the abode, and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell. The trees we have planted, the houses we have built, or the posterity we have begotten, all serve to bind us closer to earth, and embitter our parting.
Página 300 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 364 - 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...
Página 374 - The lapse of ages changes all things — time — language — the earth — the bounds of the sea — the stars of the sky, and every thing 'aboui, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always | been, and always will be. an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death,. and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment.