The poems and plays of Oliver GoldsmithIra Bradley & Company, 1818 - 254 pages |
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... soul , each wandering hope at rest , May gather bliss , to see my fellows blest . But where to find that happiest spot below , Who can direct , when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that ...
... soul , each wandering hope at rest , May gather bliss , to see my fellows blest . But where to find that happiest spot below , Who can direct , when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that ...
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... soul ; While low delights , succeeding fast behind , In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those doines , where Cæsars once bore sway , Defaced by time , and tottering in decay , There in the ruin , heedless of the dead , The ...
... soul ; While low delights , succeeding fast behind , In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those doines , where Cæsars once bore sway , Defaced by time , and tottering in decay , There in the ruin , heedless of the dead , The ...
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... soul conforms , And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child , when scaring sounds molest , Clings close and closer to the mother's breast , So the loud torrent , and the whirlwind's roar , But bind him to his ...
... soul conforms , And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child , when scaring sounds molest , Clings close and closer to the mother's breast , So the loud torrent , and the whirlwind's roar , But bind him to his ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame , Catch every nerve , and vibrate through the frame . Their level life is but a smouldering fire , Unquenched by want , unfanned by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures ...
Oliver Goldsmith. Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame , Catch every nerve , and vibrate through the frame . Their level life is but a smouldering fire , Unquenched by want , unfanned by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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Page 27 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge...
Page 53 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland : Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart.
Page 21 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 26 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.
Page 65 - ... curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man. Around, from all the...
Page 29 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Page 29 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 34 - 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 38 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn, Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. " Then, Pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares arc wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page 28 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear...