The Poetical Works ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 355 pages |
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... hours snatched at intervals from the hard labour forced on him for bread during seventeen weary years of professional authorship . The fact makes us inquisitive as to the events of his life , and prepares us for looking on his history ...
... hours snatched at intervals from the hard labour forced on him for bread during seventeen weary years of professional authorship . The fact makes us inquisitive as to the events of his life , and prepares us for looking on his history ...
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... hours . He was strongly urged by his friends to take orders ; yielded reluctantly , and applied to the bishop , but was rejected - it is said for having appeared before his reverence in scarlet breeches . After this he became a tutor in ...
... hours . He was strongly urged by his friends to take orders ; yielded reluctantly , and applied to the bishop , but was rejected - it is said for having appeared before his reverence in scarlet breeches . After this he became a tutor in ...
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... hour to spend ; And , placed on high above the storm's career , Look downward where a hundred realms appear ; Lakes , forests , cities , plains , extending wide , The pomp of kings , the shepherd's humbler pride . When thus Creation's ...
... hour to spend ; And , placed on high above the storm's career , Look downward where a hundred realms appear ; Lakes , forests , cities , plains , extending wide , The pomp of kings , the shepherd's humbler pride . When thus Creation's ...
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... hour . C. Leslie , RA .. W. Greatbach Alike all ages . Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze , And the gay grandsire , skilled in gestic lore , Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore . So blest a ...
... hour . C. Leslie , RA .. W. Greatbach Alike all ages . Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze , And the gay grandsire , skilled in gestic lore , Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore . So blest a ...
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... that baleful hour , When first ambition struck at regal power ; And thus polluting honour in its source , Gave wealth to sway the mind with double force . Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore , 48 GOLDSMITH'S POEMS .
... that baleful hour , When first ambition struck at regal power ; And thus polluting honour in its source , Gave wealth to sway the mind with double force . Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore , 48 GOLDSMITH'S POEMS .
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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