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... DEAR RICHARD , ( SHACKLETON . ) " Dublin , May 28 , 1747 . " You may be surprised to see the date in the middle of a letter , but I have heard of your resentment at letters not being dated , and I must tell you , though I don't read ...
... DEAR RICHARD , ( SHACKLETON . ) " Dublin , May 28 , 1747 . " You may be surprised to see the date in the middle of a letter , but I have heard of your resentment at letters not being dated , and I must tell you , though I don't read ...
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... dear Sir , to your son , thrift and economy : let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes . " Much more in the same strain will be found in a subsequent letter . " Misers , " he says in an essay written in the same ...
... dear Sir , to your son , thrift and economy : let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes . " Much more in the same strain will be found in a subsequent letter . " Misers , " he says in an essay written in the same ...
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... dear mother , after having struggled so hard to come home to you , I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me . " The original of this letter is not to be found ; but a copy seems to have been in the possession of Mrs. Hodson , who ...
... dear mother , after having struggled so hard to come home to you , I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me . " The original of this letter is not to be found ; but a copy seems to have been in the possession of Mrs. Hodson , who ...
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... dear mother and friends whom I had left behind me , and so bought that generous beast Fiddleback and bade adieu to Cork with only five shillings in my pocket . This to be sure was but a scanty allowance for man and horse towards a ...
... dear mother and friends whom I had left behind me , and so bought that generous beast Fiddleback and bade adieu to Cork with only five shillings in my pocket . This to be sure was but a scanty allowance for man and horse towards a ...
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... dear mother , I found sufficient to reconcile me to all my follies ; for here I spent three whole days . The counsellor had two sweet girls to his daughters , who played enchantingly on the harpsicord ; and yet it was but a melancholy ...
... dear mother , I found sufficient to reconcile me to all my follies ; for here I spent three whole days . The counsellor had two sweet girls to his daughters , who played enchantingly on the harpsicord ; and yet it was but a melancholy ...
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Page 521 - And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid Still first to fly where sensual joys invade! Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Page 383 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
Page 387 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain : Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 276 - But when contending chiefs blockade the throne.. Contracting regal power to stretch their own ; When I behold a factious band agree To call it freedom when themselves are free ; Each wanton judge new penal statutes draw, Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law ; The wealth of climes, where savage nations roam, Pillag'd from slaves to purchase slaves at home.
Page 267 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 365 - Well, let me tell you, (said Goldsmith), when my tailor brought home my bloomcoloured coat, he said, ' Sir, I have a favour to beg of you. When any body asks you who made your clothes, be pleased to mention John Filby, at the Harrow, in Water-lane.
Page 365 - Goldsmith, to divert the tedious minutes, strutted about, bragging of his dress, and I believe was seriously vain of it, for his mind was wonderfully prone to such impressions. " Come, come (said Garrick), talk no more of that. You are, perhaps, the worst — eh, eh...
Page 308 - THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Page 503 - He died of a fever, exasperated, as I believe, by the fear of distress. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man.
Page 352 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.