The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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... appears to have always regarded with peculiar bitterness , yet to which , after a first unsatisfactory trial of what was to be his true vocation , he unhesitatingly returned . If he went back once more to his pen , it was only to enable ...
... appears to have always regarded with peculiar bitterness , yet to which , after a first unsatisfactory trial of what was to be his true vocation , he unhesitatingly returned . If he went back once more to his pen , it was only to enable ...
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... appear ; Lakes , forests , cities , plains , extending wide , The pomp of kings , the shepherd's humbler pride . When thus Creation's charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the ...
... appear ; Lakes , forests , cities , plains , extending wide , The pomp of kings , the shepherd's humbler pride . When thus Creation's charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the ...
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... appear , Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil , Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While ...
... appear , Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil , Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While ...
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... appear , Even liberty itself is bartered here . At gold's superior charms all freedom flies , The needy sell it , and the rich man buys ; A land of tyrants , and a den of slaves , 1 Here wretches seek dishonourable graves , 2 And calmly ...
... appear , Even liberty itself is bartered here . At gold's superior charms all freedom flies , The needy sell it , and the rich man buys ; A land of tyrants , and a den of slaves , 1 Here wretches seek dishonourable graves , 2 And calmly ...
Page 60
... appear , And sympathetic sheep ; Even pitying hills would drop a tear If hills could learn to weep . His bounty in exalted strain Each bard might well display : Since none implor'd relief in vain That went reliev'd away . And hark ! I ...
... appear , And sympathetic sheep ; Even pitying hills would drop a tear If hills could learn to weep . His bounty in exalted strain Each bard might well display : Since none implor'd relief in vain That went reliev'd away . And hark ! I ...
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