English EssaysWalter Cochrane Bronson H. Holt, 1905 - 404 pages |
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... OLIVER GOLDSMITH BEAU TIBBS , A CHARACTER 120 iii 1 3 4 6 7 EDMUND BURKE ENGLAND AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WILLIAM HAZLITT ON vii.
... OLIVER GOLDSMITH BEAU TIBBS , A CHARACTER 120 iii 1 3 4 6 7 EDMUND BURKE ENGLAND AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WILLIAM HAZLITT ON vii.
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... OLIVER GOLDSMITH 222 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY OLIVER GOLDSMITH 238 JOHN RUSKIN SELECTIONS FROM MODERN PAINTERS 250 AN IDEALIST'S ARRAIGNMENT OF THE AGE 259 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 273 MATTHEW ARNOLD HEBRAISM AND ...
... OLIVER GOLDSMITH 222 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY OLIVER GOLDSMITH 238 JOHN RUSKIN SELECTIONS FROM MODERN PAINTERS 250 AN IDEALIST'S ARRAIGNMENT OF THE AGE 259 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 273 MATTHEW ARNOLD HEBRAISM AND ...
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... which 20 contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty , though clouded by incrustations , debased by impurities , and mingled with a mass of meaner materials . " Oliver Goldsmith . 1728-1774 . BEAU TIBBS , A SHAKESPEARE 119.
... which 20 contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty , though clouded by incrustations , debased by impurities , and mingled with a mass of meaner materials . " Oliver Goldsmith . 1728-1774 . BEAU TIBBS , A SHAKESPEARE 119.
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Walter Cochrane Bronson. " Oliver Goldsmith . 1728-1774 . BEAU TIBBS , A CHARACTER . ( From Essays , 1765. ) Though naturally pensive , yet I am fond of gay company and take every opportunity of thus dismissing the mind from duty . From ...
Walter Cochrane Bronson. " Oliver Goldsmith . 1728-1774 . BEAU TIBBS , A CHARACTER . ( From Essays , 1765. ) Though naturally pensive , yet I am fond of gay company and take every opportunity of thus dismissing the mind from duty . From ...
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... be employed only as a spy upon the servants or a bugbear to frighten children into duty . " There are some acquaintances whom it is no easy matter to 35 shake off . My little beau yesterday overtook me again 122 OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
... be employed only as a spy upon the servants or a bugbear to frighten children into duty . " There are some acquaintances whom it is no easy matter to 35 shake off . My little beau yesterday overtook me again 122 OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
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Page 292 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
Page 11 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 9 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 11 - And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 2 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 9 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 11 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 12 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 9 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 19 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...