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to others, while its errors are all my own.
"THE BEST BELOVED OF ENGLISH WRITERS"
virtues were rather domestic than distinguished.
happy family of eight, of whom two died in childhood.
much as his stories of campaigns. He had an excellent literary taste.
I knew him well, and every truant knew."
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned."
Byrne made Oliver in heart and mind a wayward rover all his life.
expressions of honour and affection bestowed upon him by his brother.
Edgeworthstown completed his schooling at the age of seventeen.
fairest ever paid by son to sire.
by nightfall, he was still miles away from the appointed place.
greatest wag in the vicinity.
breakfast on the morrow, and then went to bed.
with laughter and every moment more bewitching.
both him and themselves, had treated their guest so well.
degradation. Common manliness cannot suffer indignities of this sort.
unfailing if not unerring charity.
scorned, involved the warranty of self-suffering upon the eager deed.
incomprehensible to ours. Death overtook this man in a drunken brawl.
lives less loving could not discern.
through which he was at any time himself the sufferer.
"In wit, a man--simplicity, a child."
following the loitering line of least resistance.
certain coldness crept into the heart of Henry, the beloved brother.
Deserted Village_ he has revealed a living and an enlightening ideal.
rescue. His manner was at all times persuasive rather than peremptory.
one faithful life its due.
heeded, than by those that become the subject of fixed study.
issue and the material care.
and happiness for many and many a heart, and many and many a home.
Where humble happiness endeared each scene!"
"These were thy charms, but all these charms are fled,"
"And desolation saddens all thy green."
"Far, far away thy children leave the land.
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay."
When once destroyed, can never be supplied."
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth."
"Every pang that folly pays to pride."
Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down."
His Heaven commences ere the world be past!"
"The sad historian of the pensive plain."
Night," lost the Scottish and gave the piece an English colour.
profoundness of the theme and throughout the touch of a master power.
Nor ere had changed, nor wished to change, his place."
More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise."
His pity gave ere charity began."
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray."
discussing news "much older than their ale."
Between a splendid and a happy land."
"The glaring impotence of dress."
Has wept at tales of innocence distrest.
Near her betrayer's door she lays her head."
"Pamper luxury, and thin mankind."
How ill-exchanged are things like these for thee!
Diffuse their pleasures, only to destroy.
Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round."
Though very poor, may still be very blest."
and delightful days, or forgetful of his fellow-men.
tailor's bill. Here we have the prototype of "the good-natured man."
GOLDSMITH AS A YOUNG MAN.
unfailingly provided, Goldsmith set sail in a ship bound for Bordeaux.
music--some sort of flute, we must presume. It was a queer pilgrimage.
The peasantry gave the minstrel food by day and a bed at night.
deserved better of a nephew than this good old man.
physician upon Goldsmith, and either Padua or Louvain has the honour.
fine poem during these boyish wanderings through Europe.
children, and all, forthwith and henceforth and for ever, his friends.
genius. We have here that uniqueness that signalises and divides.
doubtless too didactic at times to always move consummate delight.
"Wealth, commerce, honour, liberty, content."
This favourite good begets peculiar pain,"
"And e'en in penance, planning sins anew."
"Sport and flutter in a kinder sky."
And dance forgetful of the noontide hour."
graceful pen had granted us a full and vivid record of his roamings.
hearts of women, the smiles of children, and the lives of men.
an inevitable purity and tenderness with him and with all he ever did.
love-illumined soul of the man.
day very quietly: "When I lived among the beggars in Axe Lane."
attends the realisation of man's estate.
student, a certain Dr. Sleigh. To this generous man he bent his steps.
poor doctor soon seemed quite alone, and, what was worse, forgotten.
one of the most successful authors of the day.
end he found occupation in Peckham, and not Palestine.
the opening of a novel. He set great store on these precious papers.
a few striking sentences, he shows the humiliations of the position.
it, Sam? Have you got an engraving?"
Sam had not yet procured the picture.
not have waited an hour without having it."
Goldsmith replied very simply, "Common Sense."
in Paternoster Row, gaining shelter of a sort and board and lodging.
poverty, until at last the very hope of bare subsistence perished.
and befriend. Imagine the disappointment.
for I have only reached the second storey."
"THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD"
passed through held to the end their sway upon his heart.
levelled against the tribe of publishers gathered black clouds.
vituperations on the poor man's memory.
Steele, the Tatler; Johnson, the Rambler; and Goldsmith, the Citizen.
DR. JOHNSON, BOSWELL AND GOLDSMITH, AT THE MITRE TAVERN.
Fleet Street arm-in-arm with Percy to take supper with Dr. Goldsmith.
when she was a little child.
most exhausting of all the processes of gaining a decent livelihood.
can be imagined. The sum received by Milton for "Paradise Lost"
indicates the usage of an earlier day. Things had not much improved.
Goldsmith's admiring and unalterable faithfulness and affection.
must associate with their utterance preclude the possibility.
great personage capable of indulging in a school-boy prank?
hypnotic force, and converting by magic a fool into a wit.
winning grace, but partly to the greatness of the man. "Dr.
gentleness lives lighted by divinity.
that they laughed at him as well.
queer little manner of bobbing. This bob he fondly imagined a bow.
also from an innate good breeding and cultured and natural chivalry.
and the valour of the race.
sharing it with him and having more than half.
"there are very small hopes of its success."
that the greatest work of his genius came to light.
the true heart of Dr. Johnson, who never failed a friend or any man.
He proceeded with his confidences.
of Madeira and a glass before him."
his landlady in high tone for having used him so ill."
perfecting his beautiful novel, _The Vicar of Wakefield_.
instant it lay completed in his desk.
The pure delights of life he knew faithfully, and lovingly bestowed.
presenting vital facts concisely, and making his pages compendious.
few light musical works that came to little, Goldsmith collaborated.
"Ah, Mr. Craddock, think of me, that must write a volume every month."
serenely faithful to and fulfilling its great imperishable mission.
have glanced up and seen Goldsmith looking down in all his tenderness.
Goldsmith was not in London, and not even in England. He was in Paris.
tenderness and sympathy and almost fatherly kindness and solicitude.
playwright's letters to the manager are absolute supplications.
faith, but whatever that might mean in his mind, he did nothing.
meal at the Shakespeare Tavern was one of the most jovial imaginable.
The party mustered on the battle-field. It was Goldsmith's Waterloo.
delightful force of Goldsmith's dialogue lies in entire naturalness.
arguments, 'mid trips and assaults, between Mr. Burchell and Mrs.
success. In this we have the beautiful words of the dedication to Dr.
Goldsmith to intercede and rescue him from the scorn of the critics.
Noll should write: "I am sick of the stage!"
it will do him good."
night of passing death has led on to the day of unpassing life.
solemnity, said: "Poor Goldsmith! He was a very great man."
Christianity is seen in its illuminating stars, living everlastingly.
which shine Sister Dora and St. Francis of Assisi.
heart is their sufficing commentary.
modern research than to intrinsic failures in the works themselves.
in sound views, and also in their unfailing explicit expression.
performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing.
not been so fine a poem since Pope's time." This may seem poor praise.
the lives of men in writing it, still there is a sweet similitude.
lowly heart. At last the glow was seen, and grew a light distinct.
its dawn through the love-lit lines of Gray and Goldsmith.
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way."
force in friendship, that great grace which few attain.
summers. Her wifely affections were early destined for another heart.
remembered by, the Jessamy Bride. These two made merry when they met.
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