The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volumen4Putnam, 1850 |
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... thing equal . " - Critical Review , Dec. 1764 . " Goldsmith's poetry , " says Mr. Campbell , " enjoys a calm and steady popularity . It inspires us , indeed , with no admiration of daring design or of fertile invention ; but it presents ...
... thing equal . " - Critical Review , Dec. 1764 . " Goldsmith's poetry , " says Mr. Campbell , " enjoys a calm and steady popularity . It inspires us , indeed , with no admiration of daring design or of fertile invention ; but it presents ...
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... thing , who wants to be thought a bold man , having lost the character of a wise one . Him they dignify with the name of poet : his tawdry lampoons are called satires ; his turbulence is said to be force , and his frenzy fire . What ...
... thing , who wants to be thought a bold man , having lost the character of a wise one . Him they dignify with the name of poet : his tawdry lampoons are called satires ; his turbulence is said to be force , and his frenzy fire . What ...
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... things are great to little man ; And wiser he , whose sympathetic mind disposition give me leave to enjoy the present hour ? When at Lyons , I thought all happiness lay beyond the Alps ; when in Italy , I found myself still in want of ...
... things are great to little man ; And wiser he , whose sympathetic mind disposition give me leave to enjoy the present hour ? When at Lyons , I thought all happiness lay beyond the Alps ; when in Italy , I found myself still in want of ...
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... thing to stand alone in one's county . I look round , not a house is to be seen but mine . I am the Giant of Giant Castle , and have eat up all my neighbors . ' " - CAMPBELL , British Poets , vol . vi . p . 266. ] And , many a year ...
... thing to stand alone in one's county . I look round , not a house is to be seen but mine . I am the Giant of Giant Castle , and have eat up all my neighbors . ' " - CAMPBELL , British Poets , vol . vi . p . 266. ] And , many a year ...
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... thing , That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; * [ Sir Joshua Reynolds from this passage took the idea of his painting of ' Resignation , ' of which an engraving being taken , he thus inscribed it to the poet : " This attempt to ...
... thing , That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; * [ Sir Joshua Reynolds from this passage took the idea of his painting of ' Resignation , ' of which an engraving being taken , he thus inscribed it to the poet : " This attempt to ...
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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...