The poems and plays of Oliver GoldsmithIra Bradley & Company, 1818 - 254 pages |
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... talking age and whispering lovers made ! How often have I blessed the coming day , When toil remitting lent its turn to play , And all the village train , from labour free , Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a ...
... talking age and whispering lovers made ! How often have I blessed the coming day , When toil remitting lent its turn to play , And all the village train , from labour free , Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a ...
Page 77
... talks , and swears , with round parade , Looking , as who should say , damme ! who's afraid ? Strip but this vizor off , and sure I am You'll find his lionship a very lamb . Yon politician , famous in debate , Perhaps , to vulgar eyes ...
... talks , and swears , with round parade , Looking , as who should say , damme ! who's afraid ? Strip but this vizor off , and sure I am You'll find his lionship a very lamb . Yon politician , famous in debate , Perhaps , to vulgar eyes ...
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... talk of disinheriting so good , so worthy a young gentleman as your nephew , my master . All the world loves him . Sir Wil . Say , rather , that he loves all the world ; that is his fault . Jar . I am sure there is no part of it more ...
... talk of disinheriting so good , so worthy a young gentleman as your nephew , my master . All the world loves him . Sir Wil . Say , rather , that he loves all the world ; that is his fault . Jar . I am sure there is no part of it more ...
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... talk , and he loved to hear me talk ; poor dear Dick . He used to say that Croaker rhymed to joker ; and so we used to laugh - Poor Dick . [ Going to cry . Hon . His fate affects me . Cro . Ay , he grew sick of this miserable life ...
... talk , and he loved to hear me talk ; poor dear Dick . He used to say that Croaker rhymed to joker ; and so we used to laugh - Poor Dick . [ Going to cry . Hon . His fate affects me . Cro . Ay , he grew sick of this miserable life ...
Page 103
... talk of trying what a Scotch parson can do . Miss Rich . Well , I own they have deceived me - and so demurely as Olivia carried it too ! -Would you be lieve it , Garnet , I told her all my secrets ; and yet the sly cheat concealed all ...
... talk of trying what a Scotch parson can do . Miss Rich . Well , I own they have deceived me - and so demurely as Olivia carried it too ! -Would you be lieve it , Garnet , I told her all my secrets ; and yet the sly cheat concealed all ...
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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...