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 xxiii
... truth , " replied Goldsmith , " I think so too ; it is near five shillings a couplet , which is much more than the honest man can afford , and , indeed , more than any modern poetry is worth . I have not been easy since I received xxiii.
... truth , " replied Goldsmith , " I think so too ; it is near five shillings a couplet , which is much more than the honest man can afford , and , indeed , more than any modern poetry is worth . I have not been easy since I received xxiii.
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... truth the characteristic peculiarities of each : no man is lampooned , and no man is flattered . The occasion of the poem was a circum- stance of festivity . A literary party with which he occasionally dined at the St. James's coffee ...
... truth the characteristic peculiarities of each : no man is lampooned , and no man is flattered . The occasion of the poem was a circum- stance of festivity . A literary party with which he occasionally dined at the St. James's coffee ...
Side xlii
... truth . " His prose has been admitted as the model of perfection , and the standard of the English language . Dr. Johnson says , ' Goldsmith was a man of such variety of powers , and such felicity of performance , that he seemed to ...
... truth . " His prose has been admitted as the model of perfection , and the standard of the English language . Dr. Johnson says , ' Goldsmith was a man of such variety of powers , and such felicity of performance , that he seemed to ...
Side xliii
... truth more than poetical fiction . The description of the parish priest ( probably intended for a character of his brother Henry ) would have done honour to any poet of any age . In this description , the simile of the bird teaching her ...
... truth more than poetical fiction . The description of the parish priest ( probably intended for a character of his brother Henry ) would have done honour to any poet of any age . In this description , the simile of the bird teaching her ...
Side xliv
... truth , yet a mind turn'd to fictions . Now mix these ingredients , which , warm'd in the baking , Turn to learning and gaming , religion and raking ; With the love of a wench , let his writings be chaste , Tip his tongue with strange ...
... truth , yet a mind turn'd to fictions . Now mix these ingredients , which , warm'd in the baking , Turn to learning and gaming , religion and raking ; With the love of a wench , let his writings be chaste , Tip his tongue with strange ...
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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...