The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life & Writings to which is Added a Critical Disseetation on His PoetryCadell & Davies, 1805 - 148 pagina's |
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Pagina xxx
... leave to declare , that in all my life I never wrote , or dictated , a single paragraph , letter , or essay , in a news- paper , except a few moral essays , under the character of a Chinese , about ten years ago , in the Ledger ; and a ...
... leave to declare , that in all my life I never wrote , or dictated , a single paragraph , letter , or essay , in a news- paper , except a few moral essays , under the character of a Chinese , about ten years ago , in the Ledger ; and a ...
Pagina xlvi
... LEAVE US BEHIND . I ask it by proxy for letters and fame , As the pride of our heart , and the old English name . I demand it as such for virtue and truth , As the solace of age , and the guide of our youth . Consider what poets ...
... LEAVE US BEHIND . I ask it by proxy for letters and fame , As the pride of our heart , and the old English name . I demand it as such for virtue and truth , As the solace of age , and the guide of our youth . Consider what poets ...
Pagina lxxiii
... leave the body's clay , To moulder in its kindred dust away , The pious tears from ev'ry eye that flow , The gen'ral grief , proclaim the gen'ral woe . Where now , blest bard , shall worth like thine be found ? Where now the breast ...
... leave the body's clay , To moulder in its kindred dust away , The pious tears from ev'ry eye that flow , The gen'ral grief , proclaim the gen'ral woe . Where now , blest bard , shall worth like thine be found ? Where now the breast ...
Pagina lxxv
... leave her realm to slav'ry and decay . Ill - fated wretches , who forsake a home , Where peace and plenty crown your hours , to roam In deadly swamps and forests that display An endless tract , impervious to the day ; Where wintry ...
... leave her realm to slav'ry and decay . Ill - fated wretches , who forsake a home , Where peace and plenty crown your hours , to roam In deadly swamps and forests that display An endless tract , impervious to the day ; Where wintry ...
Pagina lxxix
... wishes to the wind , " And ling'ring leaves her better half behind . Can I forget the intercourse I shar'd , " What friendship cherish'd , and what zeal en- dear'd ? Alas ! remembrance still must turn to you , " lxxix.
... wishes to the wind , " And ling'ring leaves her better half behind . Can I forget the intercourse I shar'd , " What friendship cherish'd , and what zeal en- dear'd ? Alas ! remembrance still must turn to you , " lxxix.
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Ęsop Amidst Auburn blest bliss boast bosom bow'rs breast BULKLEY Burke character charms comedy David Garrick dear death Deserted Village diff'rent e'en Edmund Burke Elphin Epilogue EPITAPH ev'ning ev'ry eyes fame flies follow'd folly fond forlorn genius give HAUNCH OF VENISON heart heav'n hermit honour hour humble humour JAMES BOSWELL Johnson lamp-black land learning lord lover luxury mankind mind mirth MISS CATLEY modern bards moral muse nature ne'er never night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain passion pasty plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor pow'r praise pride rise round scene shew'd sigh simile Sir Joshua Reynolds skies smiling song sorrow soul spread Stoops Stoops to Conquer stranger swain sweet SWEET AUBURN tear thee thine things thou toil tomb Traveller truth turn Twas Vicar of Wakefield wealth Whilst wond'rous wretch write
Populaire passages
Pagina 38 - 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...
Pagina 57 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Pagina 49 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Pagina 38 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn : Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Pagina 42 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school , The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind...
Pagina 74 - 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 right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Pagina 28 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Pagina 45 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And...
Pagina 10 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Pagina 48 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...