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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain which plays highest by diminishing the aperture."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"My friend seemed to blush for his countrymen, assuring me that those whom I saw running away, were only a parcel of musical blockheads, whose passion was merely for sounds, and whose heads were as empty as a fiddle case; those who remain behind, says he, are the true Religious; they make use of ...
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"The duty of children to their parents, a duty which nature implants in every breast, forms the strength of that government which has subsisted for time immemorial."
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"The differing colours which suit different complections, are not more various than the different pleasures appropriated to particular minds."
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Those storms may discompose in proportion as they are strong, or the mind is pliant to their impression."
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Should some unexpected turn of fortune take thee from fetters, and place thee on a throne, exultation would be natural upon the change; but the temper, like the face, would soon resume its native serenity."
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"But of all the wonders of the east, the most useful, and I should fancy, the most pleasing, would be the looking-glass of Lao, which reflects the mind as well as the body."
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"So it was with the lady in question; she had never seen her own mind before, and was now shocked at its deformity."
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Upon her dismission a lady of distinction was reluctantly hawled along to the glass by her husband; in bringing her forward, as he came first to the glass himself, his mind appeared tinctured with immoderate jealousy, and I was going to reproach him for using her with such severity; but when the...
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Upon approaching the glass, I could readily perceive vanity, affectation, and some other ill-looking blots on her mind; wherefore by my advice she immediately set about mending."
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