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" Vain transitory splendours ; could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall? Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's heart. Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily... "
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ... - Page 155
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 527 pages
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendors ! ceuld not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall...more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his poud'rous strength, and lean to hear. The host himself no longer shall be found' , Careful to see the...
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Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ...

Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Rang'd o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. spir'd, Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall! Obscure...care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale. Mo more the woodman's ballad shall prevail; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his...
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The Poetical Works, Complete, of Oliver Goldsmith ... with Some Account of ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendors ! could not all Reprieve the tott'ring mansion from its fall ! Obscure it sinks, nor shall...brow shall clear, Relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear ; The host himself no longer shall be found Careful to see the mantling bliss go round...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...the chimney, glisten'd in a row. V'ain transitory splendors ! could not all Reprieve the tott'ring mansion from its fall ! Obscure it sinks ; nor shall...shall clear, ' ' Relax, his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear. The host himself no longer shall be found Careful to tee the mantling bliss go round...
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The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems ...

Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...could not all Reprieve the tott'ring mansion from its fall ! Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impaH An hour's importance to the poor man's heart ; Thither...brow shall clear, Relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear; The host himself no longer shall be fonnd Careful to see the mantling bliss go round...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 67

England - 1850 - 938 pages
...Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ? Observe it sinks, nor shall it more impart A n /(or/rV importance to the poor man's heart, Thither no more...prevail; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Itc/iuc fits ponderma strength, and lean to tear." But why continue the quotation, when half our readers...
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The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...flowers, and fennel, gay; While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, Hanged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row. Vain transitory splendours! could not all...daily care; No more the farmer's news, the barber's taleNo more the woodman's ballad shall prevail; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. Vain transitory splendour ! could not all Reprieve the tott'ring mansion from its fall ! Obscure it sinks, nor shall...brow shall clear, Relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear ; . The host himself no longer shall be found Careful to see the mantling bliss go round...
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Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...in a row. Vain transitory splendour ! could not all Reprieve the tott'ring mansion from its fall 1 Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's...brow shall clear, Relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear ; The host himself no longer shall be found Careful to see the mantling bliss go round...
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The Deserted Village, Traveller, and Miscellaneous Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...o'er the chimney, glisteu'd in a row. Vain transitory spleuders ! could not all Reprieve the tott'ring mansion from its fall ? Obscure it sinks, nor shall...prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Rehx his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear ; The host himself no longer shall be found Careful to...
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