The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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... Talking Oak of Tennyson . The remaining poems of Goldsmith , excluding the Captivity , and the admittedly occasional Threnodia Augustalis , are not open to the charge of fictitious simplicity , or of that hyper - elaboration , which ...
... Talking Oak of Tennyson . The remaining poems of Goldsmith , excluding the Captivity , and the admittedly occasional Threnodia Augustalis , are not open to the charge of fictitious simplicity , or of that hyper - elaboration , which ...
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... talking age and whispering lovers made ; How often have I bless'd the coming day , When toil remitting lent its turn to play , And all the village train , from labour free , Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree : While many a ...
... talking age and whispering lovers made ; How often have I bless'd the coming day , When toil remitting lent its turn to play , And all the village train , from labour free , Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree : While many a ...
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... talk'd the night away ; Wept o'er his wounds , or tales of sorrow done , Shoulder'd his crutch , and show'd how fields were won . Pleas'd with his guests , the good man learned to glow , And quite forgot their vices in their woe ...
... talk'd the night away ; Wept o'er his wounds , or tales of sorrow done , Shoulder'd his crutch , and show'd how fields were won . Pleas'd with his guests , the good man learned to glow , And quite forgot their vices in their woe ...
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... talk'd with looks profound , And news much older than their ale went round . Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white - wash'd wall , the nicely sanded floor , The varnish'd clock that ...
... talk'd with looks profound , And news much older than their ale went round . Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white - wash'd wall , the nicely sanded floor , The varnish'd clock that ...
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... talk'd of love . " In humble , simplest habit clad , No wealth nor power had he ; Wisdom and worth were all he had , But these were all to me . [ " And when beside me in the dale He caroll'd lays of love ; His breath lent fragrance to ...
... talk'd of love . " In humble , simplest habit clad , No wealth nor power had he ; Wisdom and worth were all he had , But these were all to me . [ " And when beside me in the dale He caroll'd lays of love ; His breath lent fragrance to ...
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