The Poems of Oliver GoldsmithDent, 1893 - 180 páginas |
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... poet upon the tradition of some youthful couplets to a pretty cousin , who had married a richer As it was , if he could not be said " to have seen life steadily , and seen it whole , " he had , at all events , inspected it pretty ...
... poet upon the tradition of some youthful couplets to a pretty cousin , who had married a richer As it was , if he could not be said " to have seen life steadily , and seen it whole , " he had , at all events , inspected it pretty ...
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... poet , " it must have been solely upon the strength of the unpublished frag- ment of The Traveller , which in the interval , he had sent to his brother Henry from abroad . It is even more remarkable that — although so skilful a ...
... poet , " it must have been solely upon the strength of the unpublished frag- ment of The Traveller , which in the interval , he had sent to his brother Henry from abroad . It is even more remarkable that — although so skilful a ...
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... poets who were his contemporaries and immediate predecessors , his likes and dislikes were strong . He fretted at the fashion which Gray's Elegy set in poetry ; he considered it a fine poem , but " over- loaded with epithet , " and he ...
... poets who were his contemporaries and immediate predecessors , his likes and dislikes were strong . He fretted at the fashion which Gray's Elegy set in poetry ; he considered it a fine poem , but " over- loaded with epithet , " and he ...
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... poets of the eighteenth century , many of which latter were among his books at his death . These he had carefully studied , probably during his continental wanderings , and from them he derives , like Prior , much of his grace and ...
... poets of the eighteenth century , many of which latter were among his books at his death . These he had carefully studied , probably during his continental wanderings , and from them he derives , like Prior , much of his grace and ...
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... poet to meddle with " political thinking , " however much , under George the Second , it may have been need- ful to proclaim a serious purpose . If Goldsmith had depended solely upon the professedly didactic part of his attempt , his ...
... poet to meddle with " political thinking , " however much , under George the Second , it may have been need- ful to proclaim a serious purpose . If Goldsmith had depended solely upon the professedly didactic part of his attempt , his ...
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Archer arms beauty Bishop Percy blank verse bless bless'd blest bliss boast breast BULKLEY Bunbury call'd Chaldean charms cheerful CHORUS comedy Covent Garden cried David Garrick dear death Deserted Village Doctor epigram Epilogue epitaph ev'ry eyes fame fate fear flies Foot Garrick Good-Natur'd Haunch of Venison heart Heaven Hermes honour King labour Learning Letter Lord luxury mind mirth MISS CATLEY monarch ne'er never night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once pain pass'd Phoebus pity plain play pleas'd pleasure poem poet poetry praise pride printed PROPHET Queen rage RECITATIVE Reynolds Richard Cumberland rise round royal sable scene shore sigh skies skill'd smiling song sorrow soul spread Stoops to Conquer sweet tear terror thee thine thou thought toil trembling troops turn Twas venison verses Vicar of Wakefield virtue wealth weep wretch yonder youth