The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1Hurst, 1889 - 245 pages |
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Oliver Goldsmith. For every want that stimulates the breast , Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest ; Whence from ... pleasures cloy , To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame ...
Oliver Goldsmith. For every want that stimulates the breast , Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest ; Whence from ... pleasures cloy , To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame ...
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... pleasure's lordly call , The smiling long - frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son , the sire decayed , The modest matron , and the blushing maid , Forced from their homes , a melancholy train , To traverse climes beyond the ...
... pleasure's lordly call , The smiling long - frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son , the sire decayed , The modest matron , and the blushing maid , Forced from their homes , a melancholy train , To traverse climes beyond the ...
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... pleasure know Extorted from his fellow - creature's woe . Here , while the courtier glitters in brocade , There the pale artist plies the sickly trade ; Here , while the proud their long drawn pomps display , There the black gibbet ...
... pleasure know Extorted from his fellow - creature's woe . Here , while the courtier glitters in brocade , There the pale artist plies the sickly trade ; Here , while the proud their long drawn pomps display , There the black gibbet ...
Contents
POEMS | 9 |
THE TRAVELER or a Prospect of Society | 23 |
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS | 36 |
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