PoemsW. A. Bartow, 1821 - 216 páginas |
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... offer the feeble mind a less laborious entertainment , they at first rival poetry , and at length supplant her ; they engross all that favour once shown to her , and , though but younger sisters , seize upon the elder's birthright . Yet ...
... offer the feeble mind a less laborious entertainment , they at first rival poetry , and at length supplant her ; they engross all that favour once shown to her , and , though but younger sisters , seize upon the elder's birthright . Yet ...
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... offering shall I make Expressive of my duty ? My heart a victim to thine eyes , Should I at once deliver , Say , would the angry fair - one prize The gift , who slights the giver ? A bill , a jewel , watch , or toy 92 MISCELLANEOUS ...
... offering shall I make Expressive of my duty ? My heart a victim to thine eyes , Should I at once deliver , Say , would the angry fair - one prize The gift , who slights the giver ? A bill , a jewel , watch , or toy 92 MISCELLANEOUS ...
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... Offers to love , but means to deceive me . But I will rally and combat the ruiner : Not a look , nor a smile shall my passion discover . She that gives all to the false one pursuing her , Makes but a penitent , and loses a lover . SONG ...
... Offers to love , but means to deceive me . But I will rally and combat the ruiner : Not a look , nor a smile shall my passion discover . She that gives all to the false one pursuing her , Makes but a penitent , and loses a lover . SONG ...
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... offered ; he embraced it with ardour ; so that travelling by night , and lodging in caverns by day , to shorten a long story , he at last arrived in Rome . The same day on which Alcander arrived , Septimius sat administering justice in ...
... offered ; he embraced it with ardour ; so that travelling by night , and lodging in caverns by day , to shorten a long story , he at last arrived in Rome . The same day on which Alcander arrived , Septimius sat administering justice in ...
Página 117
... offered nothing in his own vindication , the judge was proceeding to doom him to a most cruel and ignominious death , when the attention of the multitude was soon diverted by another object . The robber , who had been really guilty ...
... offered nothing in his own vindication , the judge was proceeding to doom him to a most cruel and ignominious death , when the attention of the multitude was soon diverted by another object . The robber , who had been really guilty ...
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acquaintance Alcander amusement appearance beauty blessed bliss breast Bulkley charms creature cried Asem David Garrick dear distress dress e'en Eastcheap Edmund Burke Epilogue eyes Falstaff fancy fond fool fortune friendship genius gentleman give Goldsmith good-natured happiness heart heaven honour humour kingdom of Ireland kings knew lady learning lived lord luxury Lysippus mad dog manner master mind mirth Miss Catley nature neral never night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once passion pasty perceived pity pleased pleasure poem poet poor praise pride replied repug round scarce seemed Septimius Sir Joshua Reynolds smiling society soon sorrow soul Stoops to Conquer story sure SWEET AUBURN tavern tell terror thee thing thou thought thousand guineas toil turn twas venison vice Vide page 68 village virtue wealth Whitefoord whole wisdom woman wretch youth
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Página 51 - A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Página 45 - 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 ! How often have I paused on every charm.
Página 46 - While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; 20 And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And 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 sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down...
Página 53 - 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...
Página 49 - 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 ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...
Página 47 - A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches ignorance of wealth.
Página 46 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green; One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain...
Página 50 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there, and had his claims allowed...
Página 30 - 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 66 - Twas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.