The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick1794 |
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... honour he had done me ; when , " to my great astonishment , he told me I had mistaken " him for his master , who would fee me immediately . " At that inftant the Duke came into the apartment , " and I was fo confounded on the occafion ...
... honour he had done me ; when , " to my great astonishment , he told me I had mistaken " him for his master , who would fee me immediately . " At that inftant the Duke came into the apartment , " and I was fo confounded on the occafion ...
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... honour of immediately attending him . They had scarce entered Pall - mall , in their way to his Lordship , when the bailiff produced his writ . Mr. Hamilton generously paid the money , and redeemed the Doctor from captivity . The ...
... honour of immediately attending him . They had scarce entered Pall - mall , in their way to his Lordship , when the bailiff produced his writ . Mr. Hamilton generously paid the money , and redeemed the Doctor from captivity . The ...
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... HONOUR , AND READING WANTS NOT HER ADMIRERS . HE WAS BORN IN THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND , AT FERNES , IN THE PROVINCE OF LEINSTER , WHERE PALLAS HAD SET HER NAME , NOV . XXIX . MDCCXXXI . HE WAS EDUCATED AT DUBLIN , AND DIED IN LONDON ...
... HONOUR , AND READING WANTS NOT HER ADMIRERS . HE WAS BORN IN THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND , AT FERNES , IN THE PROVINCE OF LEINSTER , WHERE PALLAS HAD SET HER NAME , NOV . XXIX . MDCCXXXI . HE WAS EDUCATED AT DUBLIN , AND DIED IN LONDON ...
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... honour , liberty , content : Yet these each other's power fo strong contest , That either feems deftructive of the rest- Where wealth and freedom reign , contentment fails , And honour finks where commerce long prevails : Hence every ...
... honour , liberty , content : Yet these each other's power fo strong contest , That either feems deftructive of the rest- Where wealth and freedom reign , contentment fails , And honour finks where commerce long prevails : Hence every ...
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... honour forms the focial temper here- Honour , that praise which real merit gains , Or even imaginary worth obtains , Here passes current - paid from hand to hand , It shifts in splendid traffic round the land ; From courts to camps , to ...
... honour forms the focial temper here- Honour , that praise which real merit gains , Or even imaginary worth obtains , Here passes current - paid from hand to hand , It shifts in splendid traffic round the land ; From courts to camps , to ...
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Page 40 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Page 39 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. 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...
Page 35 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Page 26 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 44 - Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower. With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 34 - 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...
Page 54 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 14 - 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.
Page 36 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 42 - Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds: The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has...