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 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxiv
... charm his readers . " My Lord , " replied our author , " in courting the Muses I should starve ; but by my other labours I eat , drink , wear good clothes , and enjoy the luxuries of life . " Goldsmith had , besides his regular works ...
... charm his readers . " My Lord , " replied our author , " in courting the Muses I should starve ; but by my other labours I eat , drink , wear good clothes , and enjoy the luxuries of life . " Goldsmith had , besides his regular works ...
الصفحة xlv
... charms of his lyre . The moralist too had a feel for his rhymes , For his Essays were curbs on the rage of the times . Nay , the critic , all school'd in grammatical sense , Who look'd in the glow of description for tense , Reform'd as ...
... charms of his lyre . The moralist too had a feel for his rhymes , For his Essays were curbs on the rage of the times . Nay , the critic , all school'd in grammatical sense , Who look'd in the glow of description for tense , Reform'd as ...
الصفحة li
... charm us till nothing longer can charm . Further , in forming a scale of excellence for artists , we are not only to consider who works upon the noblest design , but who fills his design best . It is , in reality , but a poor excuse for ...
... charm us till nothing longer can charm . Further , in forming a scale of excellence for artists , we are not only to consider who works upon the noblest design , but who fills his design best . It is , in reality , but a poor excuse for ...
الصفحة lx
... charms of creation are combined , " Extremes are only in the master's mind . " He then draws a very striking picture of a stern , thoughtful , independent freeman , a creature of reason , unfashioned by the common forms of life , and ...
... charms of creation are combined , " Extremes are only in the master's mind . " He then draws a very striking picture of a stern , thoughtful , independent freeman , a creature of reason , unfashioned by the common forms of life , and ...
الصفحة lxxi
... charm the ploughman's care , But sighs shall fill the pauses of despair . GOLDSMITH , adieu ! the " book - learn'd priest " for thee Shall now in vain possess his festive glee , The oft - heard jest in vain he shall reveal , For now ...
... charm the ploughman's care , But sighs shall fill the pauses of despair . GOLDSMITH , adieu ! the " book - learn'd priest " for thee Shall now in vain possess his festive glee , The oft - heard jest in vain he shall reveal , For now ...
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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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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 28 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
الصفحة 45 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 48 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...