The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, Band 4 |
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Perhaps the reader will be pleased to see a letter to him from a part of this junto , as there is something striking even in the levities of genius . It comes from Gay , Jervas , Arbuthnot , and Pope , assembled at a chop - house near ...
Perhaps the reader will be pleased to see a letter to him from a part of this junto , as there is something striking even in the levities of genius . It comes from Gay , Jervas , Arbuthnot , and Pope , assembled at a chop - house near ...
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There is something feeble and quaint in all their attempts , as if company repressed thought , and genius wanted solitude for its boldest and happiest exertions . Of those productions in which Parnell had a principal share , that of the ...
There is something feeble and quaint in all their attempts , as if company repressed thought , and genius wanted solitude for its boldest and happiest exertions . Of those productions in which Parnell had a principal share , that of the ...
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His genius and understanding were seen and admired in both these seminaries , but his love of pleasure had so much the ascendency , that he seemed contented rather with the consciousness of his own great powers than their exertion .
His genius and understanding were seen and admired in both these seminaries , but his love of pleasure had so much the ascendency , that he seemed contented rather with the consciousness of his own great powers than their exertion .
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The love of study , " says he , « and desire of knowledge , were what I felt all my life ; and though my genius , unlike the demon of Socrates , whispered so softly , that very often I heard him not in the hurry of these passions with ...
The love of study , " says he , « and desire of knowledge , were what I felt all my life ; and though my genius , unlike the demon of Socrates , whispered so softly , that very often I heard him not in the hurry of these passions with ...
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... a degree of genius and assiduity that perhaps have never been known to be united in one person to the same degree . The English annals scarcely produce a more trying juncture , or that required such various abilities to regu- late .
... a degree of genius and assiduity that perhaps have never been known to be united in one person to the same degree . The English annals scarcely produce a more trying juncture , or that required such various abilities to regu- late .
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