The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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... live it . For , in that critical sense which estimates the value of a work by its excellence at all points , it can scarcely be contested that She Stoops to Conquer is his best production . In spite of their beauty and humanity ...
... live it . For , in that critical sense which estimates the value of a work by its excellence at all points , it can scarcely be contested that She Stoops to Conquer is his best production . In spite of their beauty and humanity ...
Page xxiii
... Lives was undertaken by him in collaboration with Joseph Collyer , 1762 ; The Grumbler , an adaptation of Brueys and Palaprat's Le Grondeur , was performed once at Covent Garden in 1773 , but not printed by the author . The ...
... Lives was undertaken by him in collaboration with Joseph Collyer , 1762 ; The Grumbler , an adaptation of Brueys and Palaprat's Le Grondeur , was performed once at Covent Garden in 1773 , but not printed by the author . The ...
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... lives that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil , Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea - born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land . But small the bliss ...
... lives that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil , Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea - born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land . But small the bliss ...
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... live , shall live as long As ever dead man did . [ From Letter ciii . of The Citizen of the World , 1762 , ii . 164 , first printed in The Public Ledger , 4th March , 1761. The verses are given as a specimen of a poem on the decease of ...
... live , shall live as long As ever dead man did . [ From Letter ciii . of The Citizen of the World , 1762 , ii . 164 , first printed in The Public Ledger , 4th March , 1761. The verses are given as a specimen of a poem on the decease of ...
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... live and love so true ; The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too . " ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG1 GOOD people all , of every sort , Give ear unto my song ; And if you find it wond'rous short , It cannot ...
... live and love so true ; The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too . " ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG1 GOOD people all , of every sort , Give ear unto my song ; And if you find it wond'rous short , It cannot ...
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