Oliver Goldsmith: His Friends and Critics ...Hodges, Smith, 1862 - 80 pagina's |
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Pagina 53 - his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven : As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. The
Pagina 52 - He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his
Pagina 49 - But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home ; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome. "Oh Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arm;, Take thou in charge this day!
Pagina 59 - no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years—for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because
Pagina 34 - Goldsmith's poetical works)," that (with very slight exceptions) the poetry of the period, between the publication of ' Paradise Lost,' and ' The Seasons,' does not contain a single new image of external nature, and scarcely presents a familar one, from which it can be inferred that the eye of the poet has been steadily fixed upon
Pagina 60 - still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite action and opinions in succeeding ages." The durable monument of Goldsmith will be in his books— the inscription will not be effaced by time—the imagery will not moulder away.
Pagina 30 - performance. The colloquy of Dr. Johnson with Boswell, on the merits of our author as an historian, may fitly conclude this branch of my subject. " Boswell.—An historian ! My dear sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman history with the works of other historians of this age ? Johnson.—Why, who are before him ? Boswell.—Hume,
Pagina 1 - now, dear sir, let me here acknowledge the humility of the station in which you found me, let me tell you that I was despised by men and hateful to myself. Poverty, hopeless poverty, was my lot, and melancholy was beginning to make me her own—when you— but I stop to
Pagina 46 - Village" bears a great resemblance. It is made up of incongruous parts. The village in its happy days is a true English village. The village in its decay is an Irish village. The felicity and the misery, which Goldsmith has brought close together, belong to two different countries, and to two different stages in the progress of society. He had assuredly never
Pagina 45 - A poet may easily be pardoned for reasoning ill, but he cannot be pardoned for describing ill—for observing the world in which he lives so carelessly, that his portraits bear no resemblance to the originals—for exhibiting, as copies from real life, monstrous combinations of things which never were, and never could be, found together. What would be thought of