The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The Citizen of the world. Polite learning in EuropeG. Bell and sons, 1880 |
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Page 199 - It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London ; — JOHNSON. "Nay, Sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man, Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three months." GOLDSMITH. "And a very dull fellow.
Page 205 - If they were all such as my Lord Mudler, one of the most good-natured creatures that ever squeezed a lemon, I should myself be among the number of their admirers. I was yesterday to dine at the Duchess of Piccadilly's; my lord was there.
Page 101 - The first opportunity he had of finding his expectations disappointed, was at the very middling figure I made in the university : he had flattered himself that he should soon see me rising into the foremost rank in literary reputation, but was mortified to find me utterly unnoticed and unknown. His disappointment might have been partly ascribed to his having over-rated my talents, and partly to my dislike of mathematical reasonings, at a time when my imagination and memory, yet unsatisfied, were...