The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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... Citizen of the World , 1762 , i . 98. ( Letter xxv . ) ] [ 2A pretty anecdote à propos of this couplet is related in Forster's Life , 1871 , i . pp . 347-8 . ] Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the The Traveller 9.
... Citizen of the World , 1762 , i . 98. ( Letter xxv . ) ] [ 2A pretty anecdote à propos of this couplet is related in Forster's Life , 1871 , i . pp . 347-8 . ] Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the The Traveller 9.
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Oliver Goldsmith. 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 ...
Oliver Goldsmith. 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 ...
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... Head , in Catherine - street , Strand , in a 4to . of thirty - two pages , on the 26th May , 1770. The price was two shillings . It is here reprinted from the fourth edition , issued in the same year as the first , but considerably ...
... Head , in Catherine - street , Strand , in a 4to . of thirty - two pages , on the 26th May , 1770. The price was two shillings . It is here reprinted from the fourth edition , issued in the same year as the first , but considerably ...
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... head , and continue to think those luxuries prejudicial to states , by which so many vices are introduced , and so many kingdoms have been undone.1 Indeed so much has been poured out of late on the other side of the question , that ...
... head , and continue to think those luxuries prejudicial to states , by which so many vices are introduced , and so many kingdoms have been undone.1 Indeed so much has been poured out of late on the other side of the question , that ...
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... head.1 Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way , With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay , There , in his noisy mansion , skill'd to rule , The village master taught his little school ; " A man severe he was , and stern to view ...
... head.1 Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way , With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay , There , in his noisy mansion , skill'd to rule , The village master taught his little school ; " A man severe he was , and stern to view ...
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