The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions

Oliver Goldsmith

Putnam, 1856

Inhalt

• Story of Alexander and Septimius showing that no Circum: 23
• On the Condition of the Poles in a Letter from a Traveller: 33
• ២៦ ១ គឺ ១១ ៦៦៥: 67
• A Word or Two on the Farce called High Life Below Stairs: 101
• VII: 123
• VIJI On Deceit and Falsehood: 143
• The Augustan Age of England: 149
• Of the Opera in England: 159
• PAGE: 167
• VI: 208
• IX: 218
• sian Assembly: 345
• Female Characters Now first collected: 353
• Asem the Manhater or Vindication of the Wisdom of God: 361
• A Biographical Memoir supposed to be written by the Ordinary: 369
• A Comparison between Sentimental and Laughing Comedy: 376
• AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE: 393
• III: 405
• V: 414
• The Polite Learning of England and France incapable of Com: 422
• On Universities: 459
• The Conclusion: 465
• PREFACE to the Roman History: 571
• PREFACE to a History of the Earth and Animated Nature in eight vol: 579

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 324 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...

Seite ix - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.

Seite 306 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin?

Seite 329 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.

Seite 306 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...

Seite 280 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Seite 379 - If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught, not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic.

Seite 306 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...

Seite 78 - In three days the web was with incredible diligence completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode. It frequently traversed it round, examined the strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and came out very frequently.

Seite 306 - With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death — That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns! — puzzles the will; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions; Band 1 von The Miscellaneous Works, Oliver Goldsmith
• Autor/in: Oliver Goldsmith
• Verlag: Putnam, 1856
• Original von: New York Public Library
• Digitalisiert: 11. Nov. 2006