The Poetical Works ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 355 pages |
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... beauty groves and fields appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here . Contrasted faults through all his manners reign ; Though poor , luxurious ; though submissive , vain ; Though grave , yet trifling ; zealous , yet untrue ...
... beauty groves and fields appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here . Contrasted faults through all his manners reign ; Though poor , luxurious ; though submissive , vain ; Though grave , yet trifling ; zealous , yet untrue ...
Page 69
... ; 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 . Like an ill - judging beauty , his colours he. 69 RETALIATION-
... ; 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 . Like an ill - judging beauty , his colours he. 69 RETALIATION-
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Oliver Goldsmith. Like an ill - judging beauty , his colours he spread , And beplastered with rouge his own natural red . On the stage he was natural , simple , affecting , ' Twas only that when he was off he was acting . With no reason ...
Oliver Goldsmith. Like an ill - judging beauty , his colours he spread , And beplastered with rouge his own natural red . On the stage he was natural , simple , affecting , ' Twas only that when he was off he was acting . With no reason ...
Page 96
... beauty with a tear ? Had Myra followed my direction , She long had wanted cause of fear . STANZAS ON WOMAN . WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly , And finds too late that men betray , What charm can soothe her melancholy , What art can ...
... beauty with a tear ? Had Myra followed my direction , She long had wanted cause of fear . STANZAS ON WOMAN . WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly , And finds too late that men betray , What charm can soothe her melancholy , What art can ...
Page 101
... beauty thus inviting , Each to different joys exciting , Whither shall my choice incline ? SECOND PRIEST . I'll waste no longer thought in choosing ; But neither this nor that refusing , I'll make them both together mine . FIRST PRIEST ...
... beauty thus inviting , Each to different joys exciting , Whither shall my choice incline ? SECOND PRIEST . I'll waste no longer thought in choosing ; But neither this nor that refusing , I'll make them both together mine . FIRST PRIEST ...
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Ballads beauty blessings blest bliss bound in cloth breast BULKLEY Burke CHALDEAN CHARLES BENNETT CHARLES GRIFFIN charms cheer CHORUS cloth and gold cloth gilt elegant comedy Covent Garden cried David Garrick dear Edited EDMUND BURKE EPILOGUE essays eyes fame Fcap fear flies folly handsomely bound heart Heaven honour Illustrated Johnson Kilkenny labour land Lord luxury Memoir and Notes mind mirth MISS CATLEY never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain Pasty plain pleasure poem Poetical Poets poor praise pride rage raptures Recitative Reynolds rise ROBERT BELL round Royal 8vo scene SECOND PRIEST SECOND PROPHET sigh sinks sizar skies smiling SONG sorrow soul spread spurn Stoops to Conquer supplies swain sweet SWEET Auburn thee thine thou thoughts toil Toned Paper triumph turn Twas Ven'son village wealth weep Whitefoord WILLIAM SPALDING WOMAN wretch yonder youth