The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the AuthorB. Tauchnitz, 1842 - 429 pages |
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... happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life , that the poorer the guest , the better pleased he ever is with being treated and as some men gaze with admiration at the co- lours of a tulip , or the wing of ...
... happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life , that the poorer the guest , the better pleased he ever is with being treated and as some men gaze with admiration at the co- lours of a tulip , or the wing of ...
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... happy few . Some of my friends called this my weak side ; but alas ! they had not like me made it the subject of long contemplation . The more I reflected upon it , the more important it appeared . I even went a step beyond Whiston in ...
... happy few . Some of my friends called this my weak side ; but alas ! they had not like me made it the subject of long contemplation . The more I reflected upon it , the more important it appeared . I even went a step beyond Whiston in ...
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... happy . The poor live pleasantly without our help , why then should not we learn to live without theirs ? No , my children , let us from this moment give up all pretensions to gentility ; we have still enough left for happiness if we ...
... happy . The poor live pleasantly without our help , why then should not we learn to live without theirs ? No , my children , let us from this moment give up all pretensions to gentility ; we have still enough left for happiness if we ...
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... happy . CHAPTER IV . A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness , which depends not on circumstances but constitution . THE place of our retreat was in a little neighbourhood , con- sisting of farmers , who tilled their ...
... happy . CHAPTER IV . A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness , which depends not on circumstances but constitution . THE place of our retreat was in a little neighbourhood , con- sisting of farmers , who tilled their ...
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... happy , insisted upon her landlord's stepping in , and tasting a glass of her gooseberry . The whole family seemed earnest to please him : my girls attempted to entertain him with topics they thought most modern , while Moses , on the ...
... happy , insisted upon her landlord's stepping in , and tasting a glass of her gooseberry . The whole family seemed earnest to please him : my girls attempted to entertain him with topics they thought most modern , while Moses , on the ...
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Page 196 - And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Page 190 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 187 - Sweet AUBURN ! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here, as I take my solitary rounds, Amidst thy tangling walks and...
Page 191 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor...
Page 186 - No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Page 189 - ... country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed...
Page 197 - Oh ! where'er thy voice be tried, On Torno's cliffs, or Pambamarca's side, Whether where equinoctial fervours glow, Or winter wraps the polar world in snow, Still let thy voice, prevailing over time, Redress the rigours of th...
Page 187 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied...
Page 196 - I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness, are there ; And piety with wishes plac'd above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love.
Page 1 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.