The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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... kings , the shepherd's humbler pride . When thus Creation's charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic mind disdain That good , which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let ...
... kings , the shepherd's humbler pride . When thus Creation's charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic mind disdain That good , which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let ...
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... of all her charms , The land of scholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toil'd , and poets wrote for fame , One sink of level avarice shall lie , And scholars 14 The Traveller.
... of all her charms , The land of scholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toil'd , and poets wrote for fame , One sink of level avarice shall lie , And scholars 14 The Traveller.
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... kings , unhonour'd die . Yet think not , thus when Freedom's ills I state , I mean to flatter kings , or court the great ; Ye powers of truth , that bid my soul aspire , Far from my bosom drive the low desire ; And thou , fair Freedom ...
... kings , unhonour'd die . Yet think not , thus when Freedom's ills I state , I mean to flatter kings , or court the great ; Ye powers of truth , that bid my soul aspire , Far from my bosom drive the low desire ; And thou , fair Freedom ...
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... kings , or tyrant laws restrain , 30 [ 1 This and the lines that follow contain the germ of The Deserted Village . ] [ Johnson contributed this line . ( Birkbeck Hill's Boswell , 1887 , ii . 6. ) ] How small , of all that human hearts ...
... kings , or tyrant laws restrain , 30 [ 1 This and the lines that follow contain the germ of The Deserted Village . ] [ Johnson contributed this line . ( Birkbeck Hill's Boswell , 1887 , ii . 6. ) ] How small , of all that human hearts ...
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... kings can cause or cure . Still to ourselves in every place consign'd , Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course , which no loud storms annoy , Glides the smooth current of domestic joy . 3 The lifted axe , the agonising ...
... kings can cause or cure . Still to ourselves in every place consign'd , Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course , which no loud storms annoy , Glides the smooth current of domestic joy . 3 The lifted axe , the agonising ...
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