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 páginas |
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... party of both sexes to a supper and ball in his rooms ; which coming to the ears of his tutor , the latter entered the place in the midst of their jollity , abused the whole company , and inflicted manual correction on Goldsmith in ...
... party of both sexes to a supper and ball in his rooms ; which coming to the ears of his tutor , the latter entered the place in the midst of their jollity , abused the whole company , and inflicted manual correction on Goldsmith in ...
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... party with which he occasionally dined at the St. James's coffee - house one day proposed to write epi- taphs on him . In these , his person , dialect , & c . were good - humouredly ridiculed ; and as Goldsmith could not disguise his ...
... party with which he occasionally dined at the St. James's coffee - house one day proposed to write epi- taphs on him . In these , his person , dialect , & c . were good - humouredly ridiculed ; and as Goldsmith could not disguise his ...
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... parties , he drew in a throng . " The lovers - ' twas theirs to esteem and commend , For his Hermit had prov'd him their tutor and friend . The statesman , his politic passions on fire , Acknowledg'd repose from the charms of his lyre ...
... parties , he drew in a throng . " The lovers - ' twas theirs to esteem and commend , For his Hermit had prov'd him their tutor and friend . The statesman , his politic passions on fire , Acknowledg'd repose from the charms of his lyre ...
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... party of dancers beside the murmuring Loire . The leading feature of this nation he represents as being the love of praise ; which passion , while it inspires sentiments of honour , and a desire of pleasing , also affords a free course ...
... party of dancers beside the murmuring Loire . The leading feature of this nation he represents as being the love of praise ; which passion , while it inspires sentiments of honour , and a desire of pleasing , also affords a free course ...
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... party . And a still worse fate awaits it ; for the ties of nature , duty , and love , failing , the fictitious bonds of wealth and law must be employed to hold to- gether such a reluctant association ; whence the time may come , that ...
... party . And a still worse fate awaits it ; for the ties of nature , duty , and love , failing , the fictitious bonds of wealth and law must be employed to hold to- gether such a reluctant association ; whence the time may come , that ...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ... Oliver Goldsmith Vista de fragmentos - 1805 |
Términos y frases comunes
Æsop 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
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 28 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Página 45 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And...
Página 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.
Página 48 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...