The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volumen4Putnam, 1850 |
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... thou fond deceiver ! " 135 Song . " The Wretch condemn'd with Life to part , " ib . The Double Transformation . A Tale , 136 A New Simile . In the manner of Swift , 140 Stanzas on Woman , 142 Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog , 143 ...
... thou fond deceiver ! " 135 Song . " The Wretch condemn'd with Life to part , " ib . The Double Transformation . A Tale , 136 A New Simile . In the manner of Swift , 140 Stanzas on Woman , 142 Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog , 143 ...
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... thou , fair Freedom , taught alike to feel The rabble's rage , and tyrant's angry steel ; Thou transitory flower , alike undone By proud contempt , or favor's fostering sun , Still may thy blooms the changeful clime endure , I only ...
... thou , fair Freedom , taught alike to feel The rabble's rage , and tyrant's angry steel ; Thou transitory flower , alike undone By proud contempt , or favor's fostering sun , Still may thy blooms the changeful clime endure , I only ...
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... thou rove ? Or grieve for friendship unreturn'd , Or unregarded love ? XVIII . " Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling , and decay ; . [ " But nothing mirthful could assuage The pensive stranger's woe ; For grief had seized ...
... thou rove ? Or grieve for friendship unreturn'd , Or unregarded love ? XVIII . " Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling , and decay ; . [ " But nothing mirthful could assuage The pensive stranger's woe ; For grief had seized ...
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... Thou shalt not thus , the Hermit cried , And clasp'd her to his breast : The astonish'd fair one turned to chide , - " Twas Edwin's self that prest . " For now no longer could he hide , What first to hide he strove ; His looks resume ...
... Thou shalt not thus , the Hermit cried , And clasp'd her to his breast : The astonish'd fair one turned to chide , - " Twas Edwin's self that prest . " For now no longer could he hide , What first to hide he strove ; His looks resume ...
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... thou desert the Muse , and scorn her smile . The same lady , in her Lives of the British Novelists , thus characterizes the poetry of Goldsmith : " Of all the walks in which Goldsmith exercised his genius , that of poetry is the one in ...
... thou desert the Muse , and scorn her smile . The same lady , in her Lives of the British Novelists , thus characterizes the poetry of Goldsmith : " Of all the walks in which Goldsmith exercised his genius , that of poetry is the one in ...
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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...