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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Letters from a citizen of the ... - Page 457
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1825
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...short-sighted premmption, promised themselves immortality ! Posterity can hardly trace the situation re vastly handsome. Uardcasüe. O la, sir, you'll...Marline. Never saw a more sprightly malicious eye. Md feels the transience of every sublunary pos"Here," he cries, "stood their citadel, now grown over...
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Rural Repository, Volumes 10-11

1834 - 430 pages
...themselves immortality ! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some : the sorrowful traveler wanders over the awful ruins of others ; and as he beholds, he learns wisdom, and feels the tiancience of every sublunary possession. ' Here' he cries, ' stood their citadel, now grown over with...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...promised themselves immortality ! PoeU-ritv can hardly trace the situation of some: the «orrowful hurch, with meek »nd feels the transience of every sublunary posKssion. "Here," he cries, "stood their citadel, now...
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The Miscellaneous Works of O.G.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...short-sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality ! — Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the...their senatehouse, but now the haunt of every noxious rep. tile ; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruin. They are fallen,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...short-sighted pre sumption, promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some : the sorrowful traveller wanders over the...wisdom and feels the transience of every sublunary pos session. "Here," he cries, "stood their citadel, now grown over with weeds ; there their senate-house...
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The School Reader: Fourth Book. Containing Instructions in the Elementary ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...themselves immortality ! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some ; the sorrowful traveler wanders over the awful ruins of others ; and, as he beholds, he learns wisdom, and feels the transitoriness of every earthly possession. 5. " Here," he cries, " stood their citadel, now grown...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...short-sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality ! Posterity can hardly trace the situation $ senate house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile. Temples and theatre« stood here, now only...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...short-sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality ! Posterity can hardly trace the situation 's life, His little, nameless, unremembered отсг with weeds ; there their senate house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile. Temples...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...short-sighted presumption, promised themselves immortality ! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some : the sorrowful traveller wanders over the...haunt of every noxious reptile ; temples and theatres Mood here, now only an undistinguished heap of rum. They are fallen, for luxury and avarice first made...
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The School Reader: Fourth Book. Containing Instructions in the Elementary ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1845 - 312 pages
...! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some ; the sorrowful traveler wanders over the awfiil ruins of others; and, as he beholds, he learns wisdom, and feels the transitoriness of every earthly possession. 5. " Here," he cries,' " stood their citadel, now grown...
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