The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other PoemsGeorge Lamson, 1825 - 144 páginas |
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... fond endearment tries To tempt its new - fledg'd offspring to the skies , He tried each art , reprov'd each dull delay , Allur'd to brighter worlds , and led the way . Beside the bed where parting life was laid , And sorrow , guilt ...
... fond endearment tries To tempt its new - fledg'd offspring to the skies , He tried each art , reprov'd each dull delay , Allur'd to brighter worlds , and led the way . Beside the bed where parting life was laid , And sorrow , guilt ...
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... fond companion of his helpless years , Silent went next , neglectful of her charms , And left a lover's for a father's arms . With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes , And blest the cot where ev'ry pleasure rose ; And kiss'd her ...
... fond companion of his helpless years , Silent went next , neglectful of her charms , And left a lover's for a father's arms . With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes , And blest the cot where ev'ry pleasure rose ; And kiss'd her ...
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... nest . For shame , fond youth , thy sorrows hush , And spurn the sex , " he said : But while he spoke , a rising blush His love - lorn guest betray'd . Surpris'd he sees new beauties rise , Swift mantling to 76 THE HERMIT .
... nest . For shame , fond youth , thy sorrows hush , And spurn the sex , " he said : But while he spoke , a rising blush His love - lorn guest betray'd . Surpris'd he sees new beauties rise , Swift mantling to 76 THE HERMIT .
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... fond of the right to pursue the expedient . In short , ' twas his fate , unemploy'd , or in place , sir , To eat mutton cold , and cut blocks with a razor . Here lies honest William , whose heart was a mint , While the owner ne'er knew ...
... fond of the right to pursue the expedient . In short , ' twas his fate , unemploy'd , or in place , sir , To eat mutton cold , and cut blocks with a razor . Here lies honest William , whose heart was a mint , While the owner ne'er knew ...
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... Fond to be seen , she kept a bevy Of powder'd coxcombs at her levee ; The ' squire and captain took their stations , And twenty other near relations . Jack suck'd his pipe , and often broke A sigh in suffocating smoke ; While all their ...
... Fond to be seen , she kept a bevy Of powder'd coxcombs at her levee ; The ' squire and captain took their stations , And twenty other near relations . Jack suck'd his pipe , and often broke A sigh in suffocating smoke ; While all their ...
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The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems ... Oliver Goldsmith Visualização completa - 1817 |
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ambition Amidst ballad bards beauty bestow Bishop of Dromore blessings blest bliss blooms bookseller bow'rs breast brother BULKLEY Burke character charms cheerful climes Covent Garden cried David Garrick dear DESERTED VILLAGE e'en Epilogue EPITAPH ev'n ev'ry eyes fame feelings flies fond friendship Garrick genius gentle give heart heav'n hermit hoard honest honour Johnson keep a corner land Lishoy lord luxury mind mirth MISS CATLEY native ne'er never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once pain passion pasty patriot pity pleas'd pleasure poem poet poet's poor pow'r praise pride racter reign Richard Burke rise round scene shore sigh sinks Sir Joshua Reynolds skies smiling sorrow soul spread Stoops to Conquer stranger swain sweet SWEET AUBURN tale thee thine thou toil TRAVELLER tripe turn Twas venison VICAR OF WAKEFIELD wand'ring wealth Whitefoord wish'd wretch
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Página 54 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Página 60 - His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remember'd beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd...
Página 61 - 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 59 - She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
Página 41 - ... Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 78 - But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay ; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay. ' And there forlorn, despairing, hid, I'll lay me down and die ; 'Twas so for me that Edwin did. And so for him will I.
Página 117 - 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 58 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Página 65 - Here, richly deck'd, admits the gorgeous train: Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ! Sure these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts?
Página 61 - 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 laugh'd with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...