The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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Page vii
... look back upon a sufficiently diversified past . He had been an idle , orchard - robbing schoolboy ; a tuneful but intractable sizar of Trinity ; a lounging , loitering , fair - haunting , flute - playing Irish " buckeen . " He had ...
... look back upon a sufficiently diversified past . He had been an idle , orchard - robbing schoolboy ; a tuneful but intractable sizar of Trinity ; a lounging , loitering , fair - haunting , flute - playing Irish " buckeen . " He had ...
Page xiii
... look upon it now with the unpurged eyes of those upon whom the Reliques of Ancient Poetry had but recently dawned , still less to endorse the verdict of Sir John Hawkins that “ it is one of the finest poems of the lyric kind that our ...
... look upon it now with the unpurged eyes of those upon whom the Reliques of Ancient Poetry had but recently dawned , still less to endorse the verdict of Sir John Hawkins that “ it is one of the finest poems of the lyric kind that our ...
Page 6
... Look downward where an hundred realms 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 ...
... Look downward where an hundred realms 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 ...
Page 10
... looks , that brighten at the blaze ; While his lov'd partner , boastful of her hoard , Displays her cleanly platter on the board ; And haply too some pilgrim , thither led , With many a tale repays the nightly bed . Thus every good his ...
... looks , that brighten at the blaze ; While his lov'd partner , boastful of her hoard , Displays her cleanly platter on the board ; And haply too some pilgrim , thither led , With many a tale repays the nightly bed . Thus every good his ...
Page 16
... look where England's glories shine , And bids his bosom sympathise with mine . Vain , very vain , my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind : Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose , To seek a good each ...
... look where England's glories shine , And bids his bosom sympathise with mine . Vain , very vain , my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind : Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose , To seek a good each ...
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