The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volume 4Putnam, 1850 |
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... whole can now , with propriety , be only inscribed to you . It will also throw a light upon many parts of it , when the reader understands that it is addressed to a man , who , de- spising fame and fortune , has retired early to ...
... whole can now , with propriety , be only inscribed to you . It will also throw a light upon many parts of it , when the reader understands that it is addressed to a man , who , de- spising fame and fortune , has retired early to ...
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... his being once , after a fatiguing day's walk , obliged to quit a house he had entered for shelter , and pass part or whole of the night in seeking another . See Life , ch . x . ] Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies , A weary waste.
... his being once , after a fatiguing day's walk , obliged to quit a house he had entered for shelter , and pass part or whole of the night in seeking another . See Life , ch . x . ] Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies , A weary waste.
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... need scarce mention these , when we find that the whole kingdom of Holland seems to be a conquest on the sea , and in a manner rescued from its VOL . IV . 2 * Industrious habits in each bosom reign , * And industry THE TRAVELLER . 33.
... need scarce mention these , when we find that the whole kingdom of Holland seems to be a conquest on the sea , and in a manner rescued from its VOL . IV . 2 * Industrious habits in each bosom reign , * And industry THE TRAVELLER . 33.
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... whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; * [ Supposed to allude to the number of Saints ' days in Ireland , kept by the Roman Catholic peasantry . ] [ The character said to be intended in this and other passages ...
... whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; * [ Supposed to allude to the number of Saints ' days in Ireland , kept by the Roman Catholic peasantry . ] [ The character said to be intended in this and other passages ...
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... whole village they considered it as a presage of some sad event , and gene- rally found or made one to succeed it . " - Animated Nature , vol . vi . p . 24. ] [ " De Caux , an old French poet , in one of his moral poems , comparing the ...
... whole village they considered it as a presage of some sad event , and gene- rally found or made one to succeed it . " - Animated Nature , vol . vi . p . 24. ] [ " De Caux , an old French poet , in one of his moral poems , comparing the ...
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beauty better blest breast character charms Cicero critic Croaker David Garrick dear e'en Ecod edit Enter Epigoni Exeunt Exit eyes fame fear fortune GARNET genius gentleman give Goldsmith hand happy HAST hear heart Heaven HONEY Honeywood honor hope humor imitation JARV JARVIS lady language learning LEON Leontine LOFTY look Lord Lucretius Madam Mandane manner MARL Marlow mighty hand mind MISS HARD MISS NEV Miss Neville MISS RICH Miss Richland modest nature never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVIA Ovid pain passion perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical poetry praise pride PROPHET scene Scythian seems sentiments SERVANT Sir Joshua Reynolds SIR WM soul SOUR STOOPS TO CONQUER sublime sure taste tell terrors thee there's thing thou thought TONY translation verses village virtue wretched write Zounds
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Página 70 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Página 39 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 64 - ... sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing pair that simply...
Página 69 - 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. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 71 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven.
Página 76 - But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Página 72 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school.
Página 78 - Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing. But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Página 29 - No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Página 33 - But, while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise; For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul, within, itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. Hence ostentation here, with tawdry art, Pants for the vulgar praise which fools impart; Here vanity assumes her pert grimace, And trims her robes of frieze with copper lace; Here beggar- pride defrauds her daily cheer, To boast one...