Longman's Handbook of English Literature: Part IV : from Swift to CowperLongmans, Green & Company, 1890 - 124 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 85 - Wakefield' is thought to be a more or less faithful picture of Goldsmith's own struggles in life, and in it we read :— them sprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of ray most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging but subsistence for
الصفحة 86 - most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging but subsistence for the next day. The exact course of his travels is not known, but he visited Louvain, Paris, and Eouen, and in February 1756 he landed at Dover, apparently without a penny, and he
الصفحة 94 - Devizes and Winchester, and Southampton and Dover and other places, gaining useful experience thereby. The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Eoman empire. Early in 1764 he started on his travels, passing through Paris and Lausanne and Florence, and from thence to Eome. It was at
الصفحة 99 - The twentieth year is well-nigh past, Since first our sky was overcast; Ah, would that this might be the last! My Mary! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow ; 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary! Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Arc still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary
الصفحة 83 - eminence by reason of his weaknesses, that if he had not been a great fool he would never have been a great writer.' But Carlyle more wisely says :— That loose-flowing, careless-looking work of his is as a picture by one of Nature's own artists; the best possible resemblance of a reality; like the very image thereof in a clear mirror.
الصفحة 90 - over, my pleasure was unspeakable. It now only remained that my gratitude in good fortune should exceed my former submission in adversity. We must hasten over the rest of Goldsmith's life. In 1768 he wrote the comedy of ' The Good-natured Man,' which was a great success and gained him
الصفحة 28 - an impudent pirate bookseller, to whom he owed many a grudge. Swift as a bard the bailiff leaves behind, He left huge Lintot, and out-strip't the wind, As when a dab-chick waddles through the copse On feet and wings, and flies, and wades, and hops; So
الصفحة 63 - declared there never has been in any language in the world a romance equal to ' Clarissa,' nor even approaching it. Johnson speaks of him as an author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue; and he also says, there is more knowledge of the human heart in one letter of
الصفحة 29 - and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Eainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by
الصفحة 24 - o'er my Grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best Companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and Statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The Feast of