The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with wood cuts by T. Bewick1809 |
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... force from the ceremonies of a Dedication ; and , perhaps , it demands an excufe thus to prefix your name to my attempts , which you decline giving with your own : But as a part of this Poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland ...
... force from the ceremonies of a Dedication ; and , perhaps , it demands an excufe thus to prefix your name to my attempts , which you decline giving with your own : But as a part of this Poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland ...
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... force , and his phrenzy fire . What reception a Poem may find , which has neither abuse , party , nor blank verfe to support it , I cannot tell , nor am I folicitous to know . My aims are right . Without efpoufing the cause of any party ...
... force , and his phrenzy fire . What reception a Poem may find , which has neither abuse , party , nor blank verfe to support it , I cannot tell , nor am I folicitous to know . My aims are right . Without efpoufing the cause of any party ...
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... force a churlish foil for fcanty bread : No product here the barren hills afford But man and steel - the foldier and his fword ; No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array , But winter , lingering , chills the lap of May ; No zephyr ...
... force a churlish foil for fcanty bread : No product here the barren hills afford But man and steel - the foldier and his fword ; No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array , But winter , lingering , chills the lap of May ; No zephyr ...
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... force unwilling awe . Hence , all obedience bows to these alone , And talent finks , and merit weeps unknown ; Till time may come , when , ftript of all her charms , The land of scholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems ...
... force unwilling awe . Hence , all obedience bows to these alone , And talent finks , and merit weeps unknown ; Till time may come , when , ftript of all her charms , The land of scholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems ...
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... force . Have we not feen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful fons exchang'd for useless ore ! Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they wafte ; Seen opulence , her grandeur to ...
... force . Have we not feen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful fons exchang'd for useless ore ! Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they wafte ; Seen opulence , her grandeur to ...
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Página 47 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 34 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 42 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Página 52 - Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower. With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Página 46 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Página 47 - The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Página 65 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts ; A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Página 44 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work...
Página 84 - Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
Página 47 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.