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 sider |
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Side lvii
... happiness , models life to that alone ; whence this favourite kind , pushed to an extreme , becomes a source of peculiar evils . To exemplify this by instances , is the business of the subsequent de- scriptive part of the piece . Italy ...
... happiness , models life to that alone ; whence this favourite kind , pushed to an extreme , becomes a source of peculiar evils . To exemplify this by instances , is the business of the subsequent de- scriptive part of the piece . Italy ...
Side lviii
... happiness . It sufficiently accounts for that patriot passion for which they have ever been so celebrated , and which is here described in lines that reach the heart , and is illustrated by a beau- tiful simile . But this state of life ...
... happiness . It sufficiently accounts for that patriot passion for which they have ever been so celebrated , and which is here described in lines that reach the heart , and is illustrated by a beau- tiful simile . But this state of life ...
Side lix
... happiness on foreign applause , shifts its principles with the change of fashion , and is a stranger to the value of self - approbation . The strong contrast to this national character is sought in Holland ; a most graphical description ...
... happiness on foreign applause , shifts its principles with the change of fashion , and is a stranger to the value of self - approbation . The strong contrast to this national character is sought in Holland ; a most graphical description ...
Side lxii
... happiness of mankind is every where equal ; yet all will feel the force of the truly philosophical sentiment which con- cludes the piece , -that man's chief bliss is ever seated in his mind ; and that a small part of real felicity ...
... happiness of mankind is every where equal ; yet all will feel the force of the truly philosophical sentiment which con- cludes the piece , -that man's chief bliss is ever seated in his mind ; and that a small part of real felicity ...
Side 5
... , has retired early to happiness and obscurity , with an in- come of forty pounds a year . I now perceive , my dear brother , the wisdom of your humble choice . You have entered upon a sacred office , where the harvest is great , B 2.
... , has retired early to happiness and obscurity , with an in- come of forty pounds a year . I now perceive , my dear brother , the wisdom of your humble choice . You have entered upon a sacred office , where the harvest is great , B 2.
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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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Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 28 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Side 45 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And...
Side 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.
Side 48 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...