The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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... tell , nor am I solicitous to know . My aims are right . With- out espousing the cause of any party , I have attempted to moderate the rage of all . I have endeavoured to show , that there may be equal happiness in states that are ...
... tell , nor am I solicitous to know . My aims are right . With- out espousing the cause of any party , I have attempted to moderate the rage of all . I have endeavoured to show , that there may be equal happiness in states that are ...
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... tell of all I felt , and all I saw ; And , as an hare , whom hounds and horns pursue , Pants to the place from whence at first she flew , I still had hopes , my long vexations pass'd , Here to return - and die at home at last.2 O blest ...
... tell of all I felt , and all I saw ; And , as an hare , whom hounds and horns pursue , Pants to the place from whence at first she flew , I still had hopes , my long vexations pass'd , Here to return - and die at home at last.2 O blest ...
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... tell what I think of the dead . Paul Scarron ( 1610-60 ) , author of the Roman Comique , to whose pic - nic dinners " chacun apportait son plat . " ( Ĺ’uvres , 1877 , i . , viii . ) ] [ Thomas Barnard , Dean of Derry , d . 1806. ] Edmund ...
... tell what I think of the dead . Paul Scarron ( 1610-60 ) , author of the Roman Comique , to whose pic - nic dinners " chacun apportait son plat . " ( Ĺ’uvres , 1877 , i . , viii . ) ] [ Thomas Barnard , Dean of Derry , d . 1806. ] Edmund ...
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... tell it , and burn ye ! He was , could he help it ? -a special attorney . Here Reynolds is laid , and to tell you my mind , He has not left a better or wiser behind : His pencil was striking , resistless , and grand ; His manners were ...
... tell it , and burn ye ! He was , could he help it ? -a special attorney . Here Reynolds is laid , and to tell you my mind , He has not left a better or wiser behind : His pencil was striking , resistless , and grand ; His manners were ...
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... tell , The old buffoon will fit my name as well ; This day beyond its term my fate extends , For life is ended when our honour ends . [ First printed at pp . 176-7 of Goldsmith's Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning , 1759 ...
... tell , The old buffoon will fit my name as well ; This day beyond its term my fate extends , For life is ended when our honour ends . [ First printed at pp . 176-7 of Goldsmith's Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning , 1759 ...
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