...respects; for while so well able to direct others,how incapable is he frequently found of guiding himself. His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches...agonize under the slightest disappointment. Broken rest,tasteless men's, and causeless anxieties shorten life and render it unfit for active employments;...

...for while so well able to direct others, how incapable is he frequently found of guiding 5 himself. His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches...exquisitely poignant, as to agonize under the slightest 10 disappointment. Broken rest, tasteless meals, and causeless anxieties shorten life and render it...

...respects; for while so well able to direct others, how incapable is he frequently found of guiding himself. His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches...sensibility to the slightest invasions of contempt. 10 Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings...

...for while so well able to direct others, how incapable is he frequently found of directing himself ! His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches...sensibility to the slightest invasions of contempt. Broken rest, tasteless meals, and causeless anxiety shorten his life, or render it unfit for active...

...well able to direct others, how incapable is he frequently found of directing himself! His simplieity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning;...sensibility to the slightest invasions of contempt. Broken rest, tasteless mi-als, and causeless anxiety shorten his life, or render it unfit for active...

...all the insidious approaches of running : his sensibility to the slightest invasions of contempt. 10 Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, vet of feelings so exquisitely poignant, as to agonize under the slightest disappointment. Broken rest....

...describing himself when, in the Enquiry into Polite Learning, he speaks of an author as one whose " simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches...sensibility to the slightest invasions of contempt, though 348 THE PROSE OF THE DECADENCE CHAP. possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of...

...describing himself when, in the Enquiry into Polite Learning, he speaks of an author as one whose " simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches...earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant as to agonise under the slightest disappointment." In 1769 Goldsmith was appointed Professor of History to...

...enough. ..may probably obtain every advantage and honour his college can bestow." 2 Cf. ibid. chap. 1x: "His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches...as to agonize under the slightest disappointment." 3 Isaac Reed and Seward are authorities for the statement (Prior, n, 1 56) that Goldsmith was an unsuccessful...