The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author : in Two VolumesH. Goldney, 1791 |
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... herded jocund with the harmless swains : But when she heard the fate - forboding knell , With With startled step , precipitate and fwift , And look LIFE of Oliver Goldsmith, M Epitaph on Dr Goldsmith, by W Woty Commendatory verses.
... herded jocund with the harmless swains : But when she heard the fate - forboding knell , With With startled step , precipitate and fwift , And look LIFE of Oliver Goldsmith, M Epitaph on Dr Goldsmith, by W Woty Commendatory verses.
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... swain arriv'd at thirty - fix ? O had the archer ne'er come down To ravage in a country town ! Or Flavia been content to ftop At triumphs in a Fleet - ftreet fhop . O had her eyes forgot to blaze ! Or Jack had wanted eyes to gaze . B 3 ...
... swain arriv'd at thirty - fix ? O had the archer ne'er come down To ravage in a country town ! Or Flavia been content to ftop At triumphs in a Fleet - ftreet fhop . O had her eyes forgot to blaze ! Or Jack had wanted eyes to gaze . B 3 ...
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... swain , Where fmiling fpring its earliest visit paid , And parting fummer's ling'ring blooms delay'd . Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease , Seats of my youth , when every fport could please , How often have I loiter'd o'er thy ...
... swain , Where fmiling fpring its earliest visit paid , And parting fummer's ling'ring blooms delay'd . Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease , Seats of my youth , when every fport could please , How often have I loiter'd o'er thy ...
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... swain ; Along the lawn , where fcatter'd hamlets rofe , Unwieldy wealth , and cumb'rous pomp repofe ; And every want to luxury ally'd , And every pang that folly pays to pride . These gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom , Thofe calm ...
... swain ; Along the lawn , where fcatter'd hamlets rofe , Unwieldy wealth , and cumb'rous pomp repofe ; And every want to luxury ally'd , And every pang that folly pays to pride . These gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom , Thofe calm ...
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... swains to show my book - learn'd skill , Around my fire an evening group to draw , And tell of all I felt , and all I faw ; And , as an hare whom hounds and horns pursue , Pants to the place from whence at first he flew , I ftill had ...
... swains to show my book - learn'd skill , Around my fire an evening group to draw , And tell of all I felt , and all I faw ; And , as an hare whom hounds and horns pursue , Pants to the place from whence at first he flew , I ftill had ...
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Page 51 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 68 - Yes, let the rich deride, the proud disdain. These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art.
Page 61 - Where wealth, accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 59 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 66 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 104 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 42 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal : But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
Page 67 - Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. Near yonder thorn that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired.
Page 66 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Page 63 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work...