The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the AuthorB. Tauchnitz, 1842 - 429 pages |
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... rest of the day , without the assistance of cards , as I hated all manner of gaming , except back- gammon , at which my old friend and I sometimes took a twopenny hit . Nor can I here pass over an ominous circum- stance that happened ...
... rest of the day , without the assistance of cards , as I hated all manner of gaming , except back- gammon , at which my old friend and I sometimes took a twopenny hit . Nor can I here pass over an ominous circum- stance that happened ...
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... rest , who mingled their tears with their kisses , came to ask a blessing from me . This I gave him from my heart , and which , added to five guineas , was all the patrimony I had now to bestow . " You are going , my boy , " cried I ...
... rest , who mingled their tears with their kisses , came to ask a blessing from me . This I gave him from my heart , and which , added to five guineas , was all the patrimony I had now to bestow . " You are going , my boy , " cried I ...
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... rest , and chiefly resides in town . " " What ! " cried I , " is my young landlord then the nephew of a man , whose virtues , generosity , and sin- gularities are so universally known ? I have heard Sir William Thornhill represented as ...
... rest , and chiefly resides in town . " " What ! " cried I , " is my young landlord then the nephew of a man , whose virtues , generosity , and sin- gularities are so universally known ? I have heard Sir William Thornhill represented as ...
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... rest of the family got safely over ; where we had an opportunity of joining our acknowledgments to hers . Her gratitude may be more readily imagined than de- scribed ; she thanked her deliverer more with looks than words , and continued ...
... rest of the family got safely over ; where we had an opportunity of joining our acknowledgments to hers . Her gratitude may be more readily imagined than de- scribed ; she thanked her deliverer more with looks than words , and continued ...
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... rest of the children . The little republic to which I gave laws was regulated in the following manner : By sunrise , we all assembled in our common apartment , the fire being previously kindled by the servant . After we had saluted each ...
... rest of the children . The little republic to which I gave laws was regulated in the following manner : By sunrise , we all assembled in our common apartment , the fire being previously kindled by the servant . After we had saluted each ...
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Page 210 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned 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 210 - 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, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread. Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 209 - All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread...
Page 206 - And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place...
Page 236 - As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings — a dupe to his art.
Page 123 - 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...
Page 209 - 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...
Page 207 - 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 251 - 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...
Page 76 - 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.