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... return to view Where once the cottage stood , the hawthorn grew , Remembrance wakes with all her busy train , Swells at my breast , and turns the past to pain . In all my wand'rings round this world of care , In all my griefs — and ...
... return to view Where once the cottage stood , the hawthorn grew , Remembrance wakes with all her busy train , Swells at my breast , and turns the past to pain . In all my wand'rings round this world of care , In all my griefs — and ...
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answer assure BAILIFF begin believe bring child comes CROAKER daughter dear deceived desire don't Enter Exeunt Exit expect eyes face father fear fellow fortune friendship GARNET gentleman girl give half hand happiness HASTINGS head hear heart HONEYWOOD honour hope horses hour I'll JARVIS keep lady laugh learning leave LEONTINE letter live LOFTY look Lord lost Madam manner Marlow married master mean mind Miss HARDCASTLE Miss NEVILLE Miss RICHLAND modest never night OLIVIA once pardon passion perhaps pleasure poor Pray pretty reason scarce scene seen SERVANT serve shew Sir CHARLES Sir WILLIAM spirits suppose sure taken talk tell there's thing thought told Tony town turn whole wish witness young
Populaire passages
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Pagina 73 - Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all — her friends, her virtue fled — Near her betrayer's door she lays her head...
Pagina 70 - To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested...
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Pagina 65 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But. all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Pagina 66 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Pagina 49 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Pagina 71 - 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. Proud swells...
Pagina 38 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his fo6d, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Pagina 107 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade f Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poems Volume 2 van The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver Goldsmith |
| Auteur | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Uitgever | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de New York Public Library |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 10 nov 2006 |
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