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... charm of eloquence . Goldsmith was often called on to contribute prefaces and dedications to the works of different authors , as Guthrie's History of the World , and Brooke's System of Natural History . The atten- tion that he bestowed ...
... charm of eloquence . Goldsmith was often called on to contribute prefaces and dedications to the works of different authors , as Guthrie's History of the World , and Brooke's System of Natural History . The atten- tion that he bestowed ...
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... charm by his boyish and social manners , and he then has soon become the plaything and favourite of the com- pany . Mr. Boswell in this year records an opinion of Sir Joshua's on the subject of conversation , which may be noticed in ...
... charm by his boyish and social manners , and he then has soon become the plaything and favourite of the com- pany . Mr. Boswell in this year records an opinion of Sir Joshua's on the subject of conversation , which may be noticed in ...
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... charms were very far from alluring , whilst her demands were extremely urgent . In this crisis of his fate he was found by Johnson in the act of meditating on the melancholy alternative before him . He showed Johnson his manuscript of ...
... charms were very far from alluring , whilst her demands were extremely urgent . In this crisis of his fate he was found by Johnson in the act of meditating on the melancholy alternative before him . He showed Johnson his manuscript of ...
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... charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school - taught pride dissemble all it can , These little things ...
... charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school - taught pride dissemble all it can , These little things ...
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... charm , Redress the clime , and all its rage disarm . Though poor the peasant's hut , his feasts tho ' small , He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No ...
... charm , Redress the clime , and all its rage disarm . Though poor the peasant's hut , his feasts tho ' small , He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No ...
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Page 23 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 35 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 77 - TURN, gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way, To where yon taper cheers the vale, With hospitable ray. 'For here forlorn and lost I tread. With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds immeasurably spread. Seem lengthening as I go.' 'Forbear, my son,' the hermit cries, 'To tempt the dangerous gloom; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
Page 35 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Page 37 - Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow. And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 44 - The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Page 78 - No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page 34 - A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
Page 39 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven : As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm...
Page 43 - Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...