The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected, Volumen4Putnam, 1850 |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 reception a poem may find ...
... 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 reception a poem may find ...
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... thought all happiness lay beyond the Alps ; when in Italy , I found myself still in want of something , and expected to leave solitude behind me by going into Romelia ; and now you find me turning back , still expecting ease every where ...
... thought all happiness lay beyond the Alps ; when in Italy , I found myself still in want of something , and expected to leave solitude behind me by going into Romelia ; and now you find me turning back , still expecting ease every where ...
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... thought ; And the weak soul , within itself unblest , Leans for all pleasure on another's breast . of Wakefield , " with a tolerable voice , and now turned what was my amuse- ment into a present means of subsistence . I passed among the ...
... thought ; And the weak soul , within itself unblest , Leans for all pleasure on another's breast . of Wakefield , " with a tolerable voice , and now turned what was my amuse- ment into a present means of subsistence . I passed among the ...
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... thought the book was a good one ; and I think so still . I said , I was told by the bookseller that it was then first published ; but in that , it seems , I was misin- formed , and my reading was not extensive enough to set me right ...
... thought the book was a good one ; and I think so still . I said , I was told by the bookseller that it was then first published ; but in that , it seems , I was misin- formed , and my reading was not extensive enough to set me right ...
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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...