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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ...: To which is Prefixed an Account ... - Page 46
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 107 pages
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...peasant's hut, his feasts though He sees his little lot the lot of all ; [small. Sees no eontiguous palaee dued, Cries, " Send me, gods ! a whole hog barbaeued !" Oh b eostly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal ; But ealm, and bred...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...peasant's hut, his feasts though He sees his little lot the lot of all ; [small, Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed; "N u costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loath his vegetable meal ; But calm, and bred...
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Going Too Far. A Tale for All Ages

Going - 1825 - 662 pages
...of Glanworth looked round upon a hamlet consisting of similar habitations, and saw ' No contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed. . . . . i , Save when he turned his glance towards the hall. But there dwelt not so much the master...
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Elegant Extracts: Consisting of larger poems

English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...peasant's hut, his feast though He sees his little lot the lot of all ; [small, Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his...costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loath his vegetable meal ; But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him...
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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical & Critical. Printed ...

English drama - 1827 - 368 pages
...peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed. we desire not, morally speaking, to see this mischievous intrusion of wealth, with all its attendant...
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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, Volume 16

George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1827 - 364 pages
...pensant" s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed, we desire not, morally speaking, to see this mischievous intrusion of wealth, with all its attendant...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous y place best that my papa is in." After this I allotted...family what they were to do. My daughter was particul hia vegetable meal ; But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his...costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loth his vegetable meal ; But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...the peasant's hut, his feasts tho' smalt, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his...costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him lothe his vegetable meal; But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...his f easts though small, He sees hi» little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear ite V 9 o 7 m w ^k f V r! `2 >m` p " , Ė Lf l 52K V V q 8^n 2[ u1 '!z gE` QW hit* vegetable nu'al : But calm, and bred in Ignorance ard toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to...
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