The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author : in Two VolumesH. Goldney, 1791 |
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... pleasure , not that we have any thing 66 important to fay , but because the sub- * ject is pleafing . " Oliver Goldsmith , fon of the reverend Charles Goldsmith , was born at Elphin , in the county of Rofcommon in Ireland , in the year ...
... pleasure , not that we have any thing 66 important to fay , but because the sub- * ject is pleafing . " Oliver Goldsmith , fon of the reverend Charles Goldsmith , was born at Elphin , in the county of Rofcommon in Ireland , in the year ...
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... pleasures ; the miseries of those who for want of employment at home , are driven to fettle new colonies abroad , and concludes with the following beautiful apoftrophe to poetry . " And thou fweet poetry , thou loveliest maid , Still ...
... pleasures ; the miseries of those who for want of employment at home , are driven to fettle new colonies abroad , and concludes with the following beautiful apoftrophe to poetry . " And thou fweet poetry , thou loveliest maid , Still ...
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... pleasure they give in the perufal , are ftriking proofs of their merit . He was a ftudious and correct obferver of nature , happy in the felection of his images , in the choice of his fubjects , and in the harmony of his verfification ...
... pleasure they give in the perufal , are ftriking proofs of their merit . He was a ftudious and correct obferver of nature , happy in the felection of his images , in the choice of his fubjects , and in the harmony of his verfification ...
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... pleasures , unallay'd with care ; Could any accident impair ? Could Cupid's fhaft at length transfix Our swain arriv'd at thirty - fix ? O had the archer ne'er come down To ravage in a country town ! Or Flavia been content to ftop At ...
... pleasures , unallay'd with care ; Could any accident impair ? Could Cupid's fhaft at length transfix Our swain arriv'd at thirty - fix ? O had the archer ne'er come down To ravage in a country town ! Or Flavia been content to ftop At ...
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... , I mean Party . Party entirely diftorts the judgment , and deftroys the tafte . When the mind is once infected with this disease , it can only find pleasure pleasure in what contributes to increase the distem- per .
... , I mean Party . Party entirely diftorts the judgment , and deftroys the tafte . When the mind is once infected with this disease , it can only find pleasure pleasure in what contributes to increase the distem- per .
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Página 51 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 68 - Yes, let the rich deride, the proud disdain. These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art.
Página 61 - Where wealth, accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 59 - 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 66 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, 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...
Página 104 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Página 42 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal : But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
Página 67 - Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. Near yonder thorn that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired.
Página 66 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 63 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work...