The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volume 4Putnam, 1850 |
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... pain , And drags at each remove a lengthening chain . * Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend , And round his dwelling guardian saints attend ; Blest be that spot , where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil , and trim their ...
... pain , And drags at each remove a lengthening chain . * Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend , And round his dwelling guardian saints attend ; Blest be that spot , where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil , and trim their ...
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... pain . But let us try these truths with closer eyes , And trace them through the prospect as it lies : Here for a while my proper cares resign'd , Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind ; Like yon neglected shrub at random cast , That ...
... pain . But let us try these truths with closer eyes , And trace them through the prospect as it lies : Here for a while my proper cares resign'd , Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind ; Like yon neglected shrub at random cast , That ...
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... pain . XXXIV . " Till quite dejected with my scorn , He left me to my pride ; " * And sought a solitude forlorn , In secret , where he died . † And till delighted even to pain , How sigh for such a friend ! " And when a little rest I ...
... pain . XXXIV . " Till quite dejected with my scorn , He left me to my pride ; " * And sought a solitude forlorn , In secret , where he died . † And till delighted even to pain , How sigh for such a friend ! " And when a little rest I ...
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... the poet's own imagination . To this I can scarcely make any other answer than that I sincerely believe what I have written ; that I have taken all possible pains , in my country excursions , for these four or five years past.
... the poet's own imagination . To this I can scarcely make any other answer than that I sincerely believe what I have written ; that I have taken all possible pains , in my country excursions , for these four or five years past.
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... pain . In all my wanderings round this world of care , In all my griefs - and God has given my sharef- I still had hopes , my latest hours to crown , Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close ...
... pain . In all my wanderings round this world of care , In all my griefs - and God has given my sharef- I still had hopes , my latest hours to crown , Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close ...
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beauty better blest breast character charms Cicero critic Croaker David Garrick dear e'en Ecod edit Enter Epigoni Exeunt Exit eyes fame fear fortune GARNET genius gentleman give Goldsmith hand happy HAST hear heart Heaven HONEY Honeywood honor hope humor imitation JARV JARVIS lady language learning LEON Leontine LOFTY look Lord Lucretius Madam Mandane manner MARL Marlow mighty hand mind MISS HARD MISS NEV Miss Neville MISS RICH Miss Richland modest nature never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVIA Ovid pain passion perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical poetry praise pride PROPHET scene Scythian seems sentiments SERVANT Sir Joshua Reynolds SIR WM soul SOUR STOOPS TO CONQUER sublime sure taste tell terrors thee there's thing thou thought TONY translation verses village virtue wretched write Zounds
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Page 70 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 39 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 64 - ... sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing pair that simply...
Page 69 - 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 71 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven.
Page 76 - But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Page 72 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school.
Page 78 - Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing. But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Page 29 - No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Page 33 - But, while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise; For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul, within, itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. Hence ostentation here, with tawdry art, Pants for the vulgar praise which fools impart; Here vanity assumes her pert grimace, And trims her robes of frieze with copper lace; Here beggar- pride defrauds her daily cheer, To boast one...