The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ...: To which is Prefixed an Account of the Author's LifeB. Johnson, 1813 - 107 páginas |
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... decay ; O , patron of the poor , it cannot be , While one .... one poet yet remains like thee . Nor can the Muse desert our favour'd Isle , Till thou desert the Muse , and scorn her smile . 1 THE DESERTED VILLAGE . SWEET Auburn ...
... decay ; O , patron of the poor , it cannot be , While one .... one poet yet remains like thee . Nor can the Muse desert our favour'd Isle , Till thou desert the Muse , and scorn her smile . 1 THE DESERTED VILLAGE . SWEET Auburn ...
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... 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 destroy'd can never be supply'd . A time there was , ere England's griefs ...
... 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 destroy'd can never be supply'd . A time there was , ere England's griefs ...
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... decay , While resignation gently slopes the way ; And , all his prospects bright'ning to the last , His heaven commences ere the world be past . Sweet was the sound , when oft at ev❜ning's close , Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ...
... decay , While resignation gently slopes the way ; And , all his prospects bright'ning to the last , His heaven commences ere the world be past . Sweet was the sound , when oft at ev❜ning's close , Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ...
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... 'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy , The heart distrusting , asks if this be joy ? 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 30.
... 'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy , The heart distrusting , asks if this be joy ? 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 30.
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... very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay , As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self - dependent power can time defy , As rocks resist the billows and the sky , TO THE REV . HENRY GOLDSMITH . DEAR SIR , 36.
... very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay , As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self - dependent power can time defy , As rocks resist the billows and the sky , TO THE REV . HENRY GOLDSMITH . DEAR SIR , 36.
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Amidst ballad bards blank verse blessings blest bliss boast bowers breast bridal night brother Burke charms cheerful climes cry'd David Garrick dear decay Doctor e'en Edmund Burke eyes fame fault feast fire fled flies folly fond forlorn Garrick gentle gentleman give guest heart Heaven hermit Hoards honest honour hour humble humour keep a corner kind labour land learning lord lovers luxury mind mirth ne'er never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain passion pasty patriot plac'd plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet pomp poor praise pride proud raptures reign Richard Burke rise round shew'd shore sigh simile sinks Sir Joshua Reynolds skies skill'd smiling sorrow soul spread Stoops to Conquer stranger supply'd swain sweet SWEET Auburn talk'd thee thine things thou toil Trinity College tripe turn Twas venison wealth weep wept Whitefoord wish'd wretch
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Página 23 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Página 26 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Página 41 - 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 46 - 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...
Página 21 - While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove, — These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please; These, round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms, — but all these charms are fled!
Página 94 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
Página 22 - His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth, and cumbrous pomp repose ; And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride.
Página 42 - But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease : The naked negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave.
Página 44 - That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground ; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Página 25 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.