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Pagina 13
... success , and Newberry's opinion of it was not sufficiently high to induce him to print it . A manuscript which was among the most precious ever penned was thrown aside for the present , and half of Goldsmith's immortality lay exposed ...
... success , and Newberry's opinion of it was not sufficiently high to induce him to print it . A manuscript which was among the most precious ever penned was thrown aside for the present , and half of Goldsmith's immortality lay exposed ...
Pagina 14
... success of the publication which makes the sum appear small , while Newberry had to consider the risk of loss as well as the chance of gain . Johnson got but ten guineas for his " Lon- don , " and only five more for his " Vanity of ...
... success of the publication which makes the sum appear small , while Newberry had to consider the risk of loss as well as the chance of gain . Johnson got but ten guineas for his " Lon- don , " and only five more for his " Vanity of ...
Pagina 15
... success of the " Traveller " changed his po- sition in the world , he removed to more de- cent apartments in the same court . His country quarters were , first in a room of Canonbury Tower , Islington , and next in a small house in the ...
... success of the " Traveller " changed his po- sition in the world , he removed to more de- cent apartments in the same court . His country quarters were , first in a room of Canonbury Tower , Islington , and next in a small house in the ...
Pagina 16
... successful play at that period producing far larger profits to the author than any other species of literary composition . He acted on the advice , and , having completed in 1767 his comedy of the " Good - natured Man , " of- fered it ...
... successful play at that period producing far larger profits to the author than any other species of literary composition . He acted on the advice , and , having completed in 1767 his comedy of the " Good - natured Man , " of- fered it ...
Pagina 17
... success of the comedy fell infinitely short of what either Goldsmith or his friends had anticipated , " we should have augured from the result that it had done by no means ill . At Covent Garden the play appeared on the 29th of January ...
... success of the comedy fell infinitely short of what either Goldsmith or his friends had anticipated , " we should have augured from the result that it had done by no means ill . At Covent Garden the play appeared on the 29th of January ...
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Pagina 148 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Pagina 334 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Pagina 153 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Pagina 5 - THE MEMOIRS OF A PROTESTANT, CONDEMNED TO THE GALLEYS OF FRANCE FOR HIS RELIGION.
Pagina 153 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Pagina 149 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Pagina 152 - ... 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. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience.
Pagina 105 - Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Pagina 19 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
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