The Poetical WorksG. Bell, 1867 - 186 pages |
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Page xi
... leave untouched all the lighter and finer branches of what we most admire ! The repartees made and the small- pox passed through , alternately praised and condemned , Oliver found friends ; and by - and - by , school being over , it was ...
... leave untouched all the lighter and finer branches of what we most admire ! The repartees made and the small- pox passed through , alternately praised and condemned , Oliver found friends ; and by - and - by , school being over , it was ...
Page xiii
... leaving college there was , for many years , no such choice . His father was dead ; his family circumstances even more straitened than before ; and Goldsmith , moreover , was not held to have much claim on them , whatever they might ...
... leaving college there was , for many years , no such choice . His father was dead ; his family circumstances even more straitened than before ; and Goldsmith , moreover , was not held to have much claim on them , whatever they might ...
Page xx
... leaving incomplete a line of affectionate characterisation of his dear friend Sir Joshua . By the grief of Reynolds and of Johnson we can better estimate how his loss was felt and his qualities regarded , than by the splendid ...
... leaving incomplete a line of affectionate characterisation of his dear friend Sir Joshua . By the grief of Reynolds and of Johnson we can better estimate how his loss was felt and his qualities regarded , than by the splendid ...
Page 27
... leave to enjoy the present hour ? When at Lyons , I thought all happiness lay beyond the Alps ; and now you find me turning back , still expecting ease everywhere but where I am . " - The Bee , No. 1 . Ye glittering towns with wealth ...
... leave to enjoy the present hour ? When at Lyons , I thought all happiness lay beyond the Alps ; and now you find me turning back , still expecting ease everywhere but where I am . " - The Bee , No. 1 . Ye glittering towns with wealth ...
Page 32
... leaves behind ; For wealth was theirs - not far removed the date When Commerce proudly flourish'd thro ' the state . At her command the palace learn'd to rise , Again the long - fallen column sought the skies ; The canvas glow'd ...
... leaves behind ; For wealth was theirs - not far removed the date When Commerce proudly flourish'd thro ' the state . At her command the palace learn'd to rise , Again the long - fallen column sought the skies ; The canvas glow'd ...
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