The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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... ( perhaps unconscious ) habit of repeating ideas which had pleased him . He had quoted in his Polite Learning the exquisitely rhythmical close of Sir William Temple's prose essay on " Poetry , ' and in The Bee it still seems to haunt him ...
... ( perhaps unconscious ) habit of repeating ideas which had pleased him . He had quoted in his Polite Learning the exquisitely rhythmical close of Sir William Temple's prose essay on " Poetry , ' and in The Bee it still seems to haunt him ...
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... perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your name to my attempts , which you decline giving with your own . But as a part of this Poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland , the whole can now , with propriety , be only ...
... perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your name to my attempts , which you decline giving with your own . But as a part of this Poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland , the whole can now , with propriety , be only ...
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... perhaps , if countries we compare , And estimate the blessings which they share , Though patriots flatter , still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind , As different good , by Art or Nature given , To different ...
... perhaps , if countries we compare , And estimate the blessings which they share , Though patriots flatter , still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind , As different good , by Art or Nature given , To different ...
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... perhaps , as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests , and through dangerous ways ; Where beasts with man divided empire claim , And the brown Indian marks with murderous aim ; There , while above the giddy tempest flies , And ...
... perhaps , as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests , and through dangerous ways ; Where beasts with man divided empire claim , And the brown Indian marks with murderous aim ; There , while above the giddy tempest flies , And ...
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... perhaps Goldsmith went no farther than the character of " Philander " in Young's Complaint ( Night the Second , 1740 , p . 42 ) . ] [ 2 Some of the traits of this portrait correspond with those of Goldsmith's master at Lissoy , one ...
... perhaps Goldsmith went no farther than the character of " Philander " in Young's Complaint ( Night the Second , 1740 , p . 42 ) . ] [ 2 Some of the traits of this portrait correspond with those of Goldsmith's master at Lissoy , one ...
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