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Attacks on authours useful to them. Return to Armidale. October 2. Old manners of great families in Wales. German courts. Goldsmith's love of talk. Emigration. Curious story of the people of St. Kilda. October 3. Epictetus on the voyage of death. Sail for Mull. A storm. Driven into Col. October 4. Dr. Johnson's mode of living in the Temple. His curious appearance on a sheltie.
The noble graces of Lucy Hutchinson, I say, may well make us marvel at the downfall following at Goldsmith's invention of the women of "The Vicar or Wakefield" in one age, and at Thackeray's invention of the women of "Esmond" in another. Mrs.
At length he took it from the fire, and to his astonishment Mazin beheld a large lump of pure gold, which the Hijicminee desired him to carry to a goldsmith's and get it exchanged for coin He did did so, and received a handsome sum, with which he returned to his adopted father.
Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, 'Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind. But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more. In the spring of this year, having published my Account of Corsica, with the Journal of a Tour to that Island, I returned to London, very desirous to see Dr.
'Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Goldsmith's Retaliation. Horace Walpole says of Lord Mansfield's speech on the Habeas Corpus Bill of 1758: 'Perhaps it was the only speech that in my time at least had real effect; that is, convinced many persons. Reign of George II, iii. 120.
My father left a very fine collection, and my mother says that by his will they are all to belong to my future husband." "Then I can set you, my jewel, in a frame of the rarest gems." "No, no," she cried gaily. "Let me have a setting indeed, for I am but a fugitive thing; but only, only in your heart." "That piece of goldsmith's work is already done.
Julia A. Moore, again, and I find in them the same grace and melody that attracted me when they were first published, twenty years ago, and have held me in happy bonds ever since. I carry it with me always it and Goldsmith's deathless story.
I should have observed, that Elizabeth Delap, who was a parishioner of mine, and died at the age of about ninety, often told me she was the first who put a book into Goldsmith's hand; by which she meant, that she taught him his letters: she was allied to him, and kept a little school.
'Stand up! I cried, 'After all the trouble I've had to get the fellow down." Of the various countries he knew, Burton hated England most. Would he ever, he asked see again his "Dear France." And then Fate, who revels in irony, must needs set him to learn as a school task, of all the poems in English, Goldsmith's Traveller!
The dominant thought expressed is the virtue and the happiness that belong by nature to village life. Crabbe saw that this was no less idyllic and unreal, or at least incomplete, than the pictures of shepherd life presented in the faded copies of Theocritus and Virgil that had so long satisfied the English readers of poetry. There was no unreality in Goldsmith's design.
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