The miscellaneous works of OLiver Goldsmith [ed. by S. Rose].1812 |
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Página 63 - Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's ling'ring blooms delay'd. Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every "sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each .scene! How often have I paus'd on every charm,
Página 109 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge, disobedient, And too fond of the
Página 75 - from all that charni'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; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark scorpion gathers death
Página 78 - the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, A» rocks resist the billows and the sky.
Página 67 - wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown
Página 63 - The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made! 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, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd;
Página 103 - BLAIZE. * GOOD people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word— From those who spoke her praise. The needy seldom pass'd her door, And always found her kind ; She freely lent to all the poor,— Who left a pledge behind. She strove the neighbourhood to please, With manners
Página 31 - To bite so good a man. The wound it seem'd both sore and sad To every christian eye; And while they swore the dog was mad, They swore the man would die. But soon a wonder came to light, That shew'd the rogues they lied The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that dy'd. STANZAS
Página 47 - Such are the charms to barren states assign'd;. Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd. Yet let them only share' the praises due, If few their wants, their pleasures are but few j. For every want that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest, Whence from such lands each pleasing science
Página 76 - day That call'd them from their native walks away; When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, Hung round the bowers, and fondly look'd their last, And took a long farewell, and wish'd in vain For seats like these beyond the western main; And shudd'ring still to face the distant deep, Return'd and wept, and still return'd to