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" That first excites desire, and then supplies. Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, \ Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame : Their level life... "
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 26
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1809
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The Poetical Works, and Essays, of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...few : bince every want that stimulates the breast. Becomes a souree of pleasure when redrest. Hence from such lands each pleasing science flies, That...supplies; Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To till the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every...
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The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems ...

Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...advantages of an inferior degree of civilization. "If few their wants, their pleasures are bat few ; Unknown to them when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy." Goldsmith has introduced himself into one of his landscapes, in which he alludes to the manner in which...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 54

England - 1843 - 832 pages
...enjoymeut; as far as it serves to prevent gross debauchery ; and, as one of our poets has expressed it, " When sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy," it should be encouraged. It does not follow, because the materials for luxury are wanted, that the...
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The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...are but few; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when reel rest: Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies,...vibrate through the frame. Their level life is but a smouldering fire, Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...pleasures are but few; For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest. Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies,...To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown 'hose powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame. Their...
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The Deserted Village, Traveller, and Miscellaneous Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest, - Whence, from such lands each pleasing science flies,...pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Uuknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frqme....
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...pleasures are but few; For ev'ry want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest: Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies,...fill the languid pause with finer joy; Unknown those pow'rs that raise the soul to flame, Catch ev'ry nerve, and vibrate through the frame. Their level...
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redressed. Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies,...; Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To 611 the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure, when repress'd : Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies,...vibrate through the frame. Their level life is but a smouldering fire, Unquench'd by want, unfan'd by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures, or, if raptures...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 5

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...constant or sincere for being, like all their sentiments, singularly puse, reflective, and unimpassioned. Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame,...life is but a mouldering fire Unquench'd by want, uufann'd by strong desire. D. DRINKING SONG, FHOM THE FRENCH. BY MAÎTRE ADAM. MAÎTRE ADAM BILLAUT...
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