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| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good. But me.. ..not destin'd such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; ImpelTd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That like... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good. But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent, and care ; Impell'd, with Steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That,... | |
| Pierre Franc M'Callum - Enslaved persons - 1805 - 376 pages
...refuse those who wished, nay entreated me, to take up my abode with the Dryadcs ? But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care, Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good. But me, not destin'd such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care: Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good,- that mocks me with the view: That like... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 472 pages
...fait son tour d'Europe ; son gouverneur était la curiosité , et la faim son seul domestique. But me, not destin'd such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursne Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view;* * Mais... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good ! But me, not destin'd such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent, and care : Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ;. . That,... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...mournful tale; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good! But me, not destin'd such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent, and care: jinjidl'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That,... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good. - But me, not destin'd such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care : ImpeH'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view: That like... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...press the hashfnl stranger to his food, And learn the lnxnry of doing good. Bat me, not destiii'd snch delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd with steps nnceasing to pnrsne Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his fo6d, And learn the luxury of doing good. But me, not destin'd such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care: Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That like... | |
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