The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with wood cuts by T. Bewick1809 |
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... shores difplay'd her fail ; While naught remain'd of all that riches gave , But towns unmann'd , and lords without a flave ; And late the nation found with fruitless skill , Its former ftrength was but plethoric ill . Yet , ftill the ...
... shores difplay'd her fail ; While naught remain'd of all that riches gave , But towns unmann'd , and lords without a flave ; And late the nation found with fruitless skill , Its former ftrength was but plethoric ill . Yet , ftill the ...
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... shore : While the pent ocean , rifing o'er the pile , Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile- The flow canal , the yellow - bloffom'd vale , The willow - tufted bank , the gliding sail , The crowded mart , the cultivated plain- A ...
... shore : While the pent ocean , rifing o'er the pile , Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile- The flow canal , the yellow - bloffom'd vale , The willow - tufted bank , the gliding sail , The crowded mart , the cultivated plain- A ...
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... shore , Her useful fons exchang'd for useless ore ! Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they wafte ; Seen opulence , her grandeur to maintain , Lead ftern depopulation in her train , C And ...
... shore , Her useful fons exchang'd for useless ore ! Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they wafte ; Seen opulence , her grandeur to maintain , Lead ftern depopulation in her train , C And ...
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... scene , Liv'd in each look , and brighten'd all the green- Thefe , far departing , feek a kinder shore , And rural mirth and manners are no more ! Sweet Auburn ! parent of the blissful hour , Thy THE DESERTED VILLAGE . 43.
... scene , Liv'd in each look , and brighten'd all the green- Thefe , far departing , feek a kinder shore , And rural mirth and manners are no more ! Sweet Auburn ! parent of the blissful hour , Thy THE DESERTED VILLAGE . 43.
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... shore ; Hoards , even beyond the mifer's wish , abound , And rich men flock from all the world around . Yet count our gains - this wealth is but a name That leaves our useful product still the fame : Not fo the lofs - the man of wealth ...
... shore ; Hoards , even beyond the mifer's wish , abound , And rich men flock from all the world around . Yet count our gains - this wealth is but a name That leaves our useful product still the fame : Not fo the lofs - the man of wealth ...
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Página 47 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 34 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 42 - 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 52 - Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower. With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Página 46 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Página 47 - The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Página 65 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts ; A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Página 44 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work...
Página 84 - Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
Página 47 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.