The poems and plays of Oliver GoldsmithIra Bradley & Company, 1818 - 254 páginas |
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... entered upon a sacred office , where the harvest is great , and the labourers are but few ; while you have left the field of ambition , where the la- bourers are many , and the harvest not worth carrying 2 B The Traveller; or, a ...
... entered upon a sacred office , where the harvest is great , and the labourers are but few ; while you have left the field of ambition , where the la- bourers are many , and the harvest not worth carrying 2 B The Traveller; or, a ...
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... enter into an inquiry , whether the country be depopulating or not : the discussion would take up much room ; and I should prove myself , at best , an indifferent politician , to tire the reader with a long preface , when I want his ...
... enter into an inquiry , whether the country be depopulating or not : the discussion would take up much room ; and I should prove myself , at best , an indifferent politician , to tire the reader with a long preface , when I want his ...
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... entered ; An under - bred , fine - spoken fellow was he , Who smiled as he gazed at the venʼson and me . " What have we got here ? Why this is good eating ! - Your own , I suppose or is it in waiting ? " " Why whose should it be , sir ...
... entered ; An under - bred , fine - spoken fellow was he , Who smiled as he gazed at the venʼson and me . " What have we got here ? Why this is good eating ! - Your own , I suppose or is it in waiting ? " " Why whose should it be , sir ...
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... entered , and dinner was served as they came . 1 See the letters that passed between his Royal Highness Henry Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor . At the top a fried liver and bacon were seen D2 HAUNCH OF VENISON . 45.
... entered , and dinner was served as they came . 1 See the letters that passed between his Royal Highness Henry Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor . At the top a fried liver and bacon were seen D2 HAUNCH OF VENISON . 45.
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... entered the maid : A visage so sad , and so pale with affright , Waked Priam , in drawing his curtains by night . But we quickly found out - for who could mistake her ? — That she came with some terrible news from the baker : And so it ...
... entered the maid : A visage so sad , and so pale with affright , Waked Priam , in drawing his curtains by night . But we quickly found out - for who could mistake her ? — That she came with some terrible news from the baker : And so it ...
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Página 27 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge...
Página 53 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland : Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart.
Página 21 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Página 26 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.
Página 65 - ... curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man. Around, from all the...
Página 29 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Página 29 - 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 Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 34 - Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Página 38 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn, Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. " Then, Pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares arc wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 28 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear...