The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life & Writings to which is Added a Critical Disseetation on His PoetryCadell & Davies, 1805 - 148 Seiten |
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... round ? What crowding cyphers cram the land ! What hosts of victims , at command ! Yet shall th ' ingenious drop alone ? Shall science grace the tyrant's throne ? Thou murd'rer of the tuneful train ! I charge thee with my children slain ...
... round ? What crowding cyphers cram the land ! What hosts of victims , at command ! Yet shall th ' ingenious drop alone ? Shall science grace the tyrant's throne ? Thou murd'rer of the tuneful train ! I charge thee with my children slain ...
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... ( each joy forgot ) Shall form a sad assembly round the cot . Sweet bard , farewell - and farewell Auburn's bliss , The bashful lover , and the yielded kiss ; The ev'ning warble Philomela made , The echoing forest , lxx.
... ( each joy forgot ) Shall form a sad assembly round the cot . Sweet bard , farewell - and farewell Auburn's bliss , The bashful lover , and the yielded kiss ; The ev'ning warble Philomela made , The echoing forest , lxx.
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... round . Ah , wretches ! often shall ye wish to gain Those careless hours ye've lost , but wish in vain ; In beechen shades , on margins green to play No more , but heartless toil through the long day . Those harmless sports which ye ...
... round . Ah , wretches ! often shall ye wish to gain Those careless hours ye've lost , but wish in vain ; In beechen shades , on margins green to play No more , but heartless toil through the long day . Those harmless sports which ye ...
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... round , and much brown ale ; How well he sung , whose oaten pipe no more Shall warble music to our list'ning shore : That oaten pipe we well may break in twain , For none will tune so well its notes again . If , happy bard ! a muse so ...
... round , and much brown ale ; How well he sung , whose oaten pipe no more Shall warble music to our list'ning shore : That oaten pipe we well may break in twain , For none will tune so well its notes again . If , happy bard ! a muse so ...
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... round the godlike man rejoice , " And bow with reverence to wisdom's voice . " There , spreading oaks shall arch the vaulted dome , " The champion , there , of liberty , and Rome , " In attic eloquence shall thunder laws , " And ...
... round the godlike man rejoice , " And bow with reverence to wisdom's voice . " There , spreading oaks shall arch the vaulted dome , " The champion , there , of liberty , and Rome , " In attic eloquence shall thunder laws , " And ...
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Æsop Amidst Auburn blest bliss boast bosom bow'rs breast BULKLEY Burke character charms comedy David Garrick dear death Deserted Village diff'rent e'en Edmund Burke Elphin Epilogue EPITAPH ev'ning ev'ry eyes fame flies follow'd folly fond forlorn genius give HAUNCH OF VENISON heart heav'n hermit honour hour humble humour JAMES BOSWELL Johnson lamp-black land learning lord lover luxury mankind mind mirth MISS CATLEY modern bards moral muse nature ne'er never night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain passion pasty plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor pow'r praise pride rise round scene shew'd sigh simile Sir Joshua Reynolds skies smiling song sorrow soul spread Stoops Stoops to Conquer stranger swain sweet SWEET AUBURN tear thee thine things thou toil tomb Traveller truth turn Twas Vicar of Wakefield wealth Whilst wond'rous wretch write
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Seite 38 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Seite 57 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Seite 49 - 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.
Seite 38 - 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.
Seite 42 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school , The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind...
Seite 74 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Seite 28 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Seite 45 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And...
Seite 10 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Seite 48 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...