Yale Studies in English, Volume 66Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1924 - 159 pages |
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Page 9 - Edgewareroad, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children: he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of
Page 12 - The Natural History is about half finished, and I will shortly finish the rest. God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling work ; and that not so much my fault as the fault of my scurvy circumstances.
Page 130 - Chamier believed then that I had written the line, as much as if he had seen me write it. Goldsmith, however, was a man, who, whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do. He deserved a place in Westminster- Abbey ; and every year he lived, would have deserved it better.
Page 45 - A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, consisting of Authentic Writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other Collections, and...
Page 12 - Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling and of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Page 111 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, , Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Such are the charms to barren states assign'd; Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd...
Page 129 - Nay, Sir, the partiality of his friends was always against him. It was with difficulty we could give him a hearing.
Page 9 - Road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children ; he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of " The Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall...
Page 44 - ... seemed wonderful ; some green, some black, some yellow, some white, some of divers colours ; and many of them had life ; and some there were a yard and a half, and two yards long : which had I not seen, I could hardly have believed.
Page 152 - The Life of St. Cecilia, from MS. Ashmole 43 and MS. Cotton Tiberius E. VII, with Introduction, Variants, and . Glossary. BERTHA ELLEN LOVEWELL, Ph.D.