Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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ISBN: 9780267243938
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Excerpt from The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Vol. 2 of 5: A New Edition, Containing Pieces Hitherto Uncollected, and a Life of the Author Yet, however this art may be neglected by the powerful, it 18 still in greater danger from the mistaken efforts of the learned to improve it. What criticisms have we not heard of late in favour of blank verse and Pindaric odes, choruses, anapests and iambics, alliterative care and hap y negligence Every absurdity has now a champion to e fend it; and as he is generally much in the wrong, so he has always much to say for error is ever talkative. But there is an enemy to this art still more dangerous, - I mean party. Party entirely distorts the judgment, and destroys the taste. When the mind is once infected with this disease, it can only find pleasure in what contri butes to increase the distemper. Like the tiger, that sel dom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader, who has once gratified his a petite with calumny, makes ever after the most agree aele feast upon murdered reputation. Such readers gene rally admire some half-witted thing, who wants to be thought a bold man, having lost the character of a wise one. Him they dignify with the name of poet his tawdry' lampoons are called satires; his turbulence is said to be force, and his frenzy fire. What reception a poem may find, which has neither abuse, party, nor blank verse to support it, I cannot tell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Author: J. W. M. Gibbs
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484788670
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Excerpt from The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Vol. 5 of 5: A New Edition, Containing Pieces Hitherto Uncollected, and a Life of the Author; Prefaces and Introductions: Animated Nature (Extracts): Nobleman's Letters: Goody Two-Shoes: Index Sensible of this truth, it is not expected to enhance the excellencies or palliate the faults of the succeeding Memoir. The public will scarce be influenced in their judgment by an obscure prefacer; and perhaps the work might rather suffer by his misplaced admiration. To confess a truth, be hardly knows how to introduce it to the public attention, and even to procure it a reading, among the multiplicity of modern publications. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Pages : 496
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Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314581461
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Pages : 514
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Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Pages : 508
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Author: Washington Irving
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ISBN: 9781331226505
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Excerpt from The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, Vol. 2 of 2: With Selections From His Writings The letter which came by the way of Smyrna, and which you sent me unopened, was from my son. As I have permitted you to take copies of all those I send to China, you might have made no ceremony in opening those directed to me. Either in joy or sorrow, my friend should participate in my feelings. "It would give pleasure to see a good man pleased at my success; it would give almost equal pleasure to see him sympathize at my disappointment." Every account I receive from the East seems to come loaded with some new affliction. My wife and daughter were taken from me, and yet I sustained the loss with intrepidity; my son is made a slave among the barbarians, which was the only blow that could have reached my heart; yes, I will indulge the transports of nature for a little, in order to show I can overcome them in the end. "True magnanimity consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." When our mighty emperor had published his displeasure at my departure, and seized upon all that was mine, my son was privately secreted from his resentment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Oliver 1730?-1774 Goldsmith
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781374302969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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