The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1J. Murray, 1854 |
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... friendship with both gentlemen ( with Mr. Forster especially ) ; but the public will , I feel assured , attribute such confidence and kindness as much to their admiration of Goldsmith as to their liking for his editor . I am unwilling ...
... friendship with both gentlemen ( with Mr. Forster especially ) ; but the public will , I feel assured , attribute such confidence and kindness as much to their admiration of Goldsmith as to their liking for his editor . I am unwilling ...
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... friendship between us can acquire no new force from the ceremonies of a Dedication ; and 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 ...
... friendship between us can acquire no new force from the ceremonies of a Dedication ; and 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 ...
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... friendship's finely - pointed dart Fall blunted from each indurated heart . 3 1 " And as a babe , when scaring sounds molest , " & c . 2 First , second , and third editions . First , second , and third editions . " Their level life is ...
... friendship's finely - pointed dart Fall blunted from each indurated heart . 3 1 " And as a babe , when scaring sounds molest , " & c . 2 First , second , and third editions . First , second , and third editions . " Their level life is ...
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... friendship unreturn'd , Or unregarded love ? XVIII . " Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling , and decay- · And those who prize the trifling things More trifling still than they . XIX . " And what is friendship but a name ; A ...
... friendship unreturn'd , Or unregarded love ? XVIII . " Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling , and decay- · And those who prize the trifling things More trifling still than they . XIX . " And what is friendship but a name ; A ...
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... friendship mix'd with bliss But , when a twelvemonth pass'd away , Jack found his goddess made of clay ; Found half the charms that deck'd her face Arose from powder , shreds , or lace : But still the worst remain'd behind , That very ...
... friendship mix'd with bliss But , when a twelvemonth pass'd away , Jack found his goddess made of clay ; Found half the charms that deck'd her face Arose from powder , shreds , or lace : But still the worst remain'd behind , That very ...
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Page 41 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied...
Page 45 - And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 43 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Page 48 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear ; The host himself no longer shall be found Careful to see the mantling bliss go round ; Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest. Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest.
Page 41 - And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 17 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 105 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Page 369 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were...
Page 46 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew: 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge...
Page 44 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.