The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volumen4Putnam, 1850 |
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... beauty groves and fields appear , Man seems the only growth that dwindles here . Contrasted faults through all his manners reign ; Though poor , luxurious ; though submissive , vain ; Though grave , yet trifling ; zealous , yet untrue ...
... beauty groves and fields appear , Man seems the only growth that dwindles here . Contrasted faults through all his manners reign ; Though poor , luxurious ; though submissive , vain ; Though grave , yet trifling ; zealous , yet untrue ...
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... beauty of nature has been seldom united with so much sober fidelity as in the groups and scenery of the Deserted Village . " - British Poets , vol . vi . p . 265 . Sir Walter Scott , in performing the office of reviewer to a volume of ...
... beauty of nature has been seldom united with so much sober fidelity as in the groups and scenery of the Deserted Village . " - British Poets , vol . vi . p . 265 . Sir Walter Scott , in performing the office of reviewer to a volume of ...
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... beauty . They have been prostituted to the gay luxurious villain , and are now turned out to meet the severity of winter . Perhaps , now lying at the doors of their betrayers , they sue to wretches whose hearts are insen- sible , or ...
... beauty . They have been prostituted to the gay luxurious villain , and are now turned out to meet the severity of winter . Perhaps , now lying at the doors of their betrayers , they sue to wretches whose hearts are insen- sible , or ...
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... beauty of the scene by the melody of birds , and thus add the charms of music to all the enchantments of vision ? Yet , I believe , there is not a feathered songster to be found in those delightful vales : probably owing to the terrors ...
... beauty of the scene by the melody of birds , and thus add the charms of music to all the enchantments of vision ? Yet , I believe , there is not a feathered songster to be found in those delightful vales : probably owing to the terrors ...
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... other joys for me . A Chaldean ATTENDANT . Or rather Love's delights despising , Haste to raptures ever rising : Wine shall bless the brave and free . First PRIEST . Wine and beauty thus inviting , Each 96 THE CAPTIVITY .
... other joys for me . A Chaldean ATTENDANT . Or rather Love's delights despising , Haste to raptures ever rising : Wine shall bless the brave and free . First PRIEST . Wine and beauty thus inviting , Each 96 THE CAPTIVITY .
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beauty better blest breast character charms Cicero critic Croaker David Garrick dear e'en Ecod edit Enter Epigoni Exeunt Exit eyes fame fear fortune GARNET genius gentleman give Goldsmith hand happy HAST hear heart Heaven HONEY Honeywood honor hope humor imitation JARV JARVIS lady language learning LEON Leontine LOFTY look Lord Lucretius Madam Mandane manner MARL Marlow mighty hand mind MISS HARD MISS NEV Miss Neville MISS RICH Miss Richland modest nature never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVIA Ovid pain passion perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical poetry praise pride PROPHET scene Scythian seems sentiments SERVANT Sir Joshua Reynolds SIR WM soul SOUR STOOPS TO CONQUER sublime sure taste tell terrors thee there's thing thou thought TONY translation verses village virtue wretched write Zounds
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Página 70 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Página 39 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 64 - ... sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing pair that simply...
Página 69 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 71 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven.
Página 76 - But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Página 72 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school.
Página 78 - Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing. But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Página 29 - No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Página 33 - But, while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise; For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul, within, itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. Hence ostentation here, with tawdry art, Pants for the vulgar praise which fools impart; Here vanity assumes her pert grimace, And trims her robes of frieze with copper lace; Here beggar- pride defrauds her daily cheer, To boast one...