The poems and plays of Oliver GoldsmithIra Bradley & Company, 1818 - 254 Seiten |
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... fortune , has retired early to happiness and obscurity , with an income 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 ...
... fortune , has retired early to happiness and obscurity , with an income 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 ...
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... fortune leads to traverse realms alone , And find no spot of all the world my own . Even now , where Alpine solitudes ascend , I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And placed on high , above the storm's career , Look downward where ...
... fortune leads to traverse realms alone , And find no spot of all the world my own . Even now , where Alpine solitudes ascend , I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; And placed on high , above the storm's career , Look downward where ...
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... fortune brings Are trifling , and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things More trifling still than they . " And what is friendship but a name , A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade , that follows wealth or fame , And leaves the ...
... fortune brings Are trifling , and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things More trifling still than they . " And what is friendship but a name , A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade , that follows wealth or fame , And leaves the ...
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... fortune one va toute : Ye jockey tribe , whose stock of words are few , " I hold the odds - Done , done , with you , with you : " Ye barristers , so fluent with grimace , " My lord - your lordship misconceives the case : ' Doctors , who ...
... fortune one va toute : Ye jockey tribe , whose stock of words are few , " I hold the odds - Done , done , with you , with you : " Ye barristers , so fluent with grimace , " My lord - your lordship misconceives the case : ' Doctors , who ...
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... fortune on one desperate throw , Comes here to saunter , having made his bets , Finds his lost senses out , and pays his debts . The mohawk too - with angry phrases stored , As , " Dam'me , sir , " and , " Sir , I wear a sword ; " Here ...
... fortune on one desperate throw , Comes here to saunter , having made his bets , Finds his lost senses out , and pays his debts . The mohawk too - with angry phrases stored , As , " Dam'me , sir , " and , " Sir , I wear a sword ; " Here ...
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assure aunt Bail bar-maid battle of Belgrade believe Bless Charles Marlow charms child Constance daughter David Garrick dress Ecod Enter Miss Exeunt Exit eyes face father favour fear fellow folly fool fortune friendship Garnet gentleman girl give hand happiness Hast hear heart Heaven honour hope horses hour humour impudence Jarvis jewels keep lady laugh leave Leon Leontine letter look Lord madam maid Marlow married mean mind Miss Cat Miss Hard Miss Hardcastle Miss Nev Miss Neville Miss Rich Miss Richland modest never night Oliv OLIVER GOLDSMITH Olivia on't pardon passion pleasure poor Pray pretty pride scarce scene servants Sir Char Sir Wil Sir William Honeywood smiling soul squire STOOPS TO CONQUER sure talk tell there's thing thou Tony undone what's wish young Zounds
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Seite 27 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge...
Seite 53 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland : Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart.
Seite 21 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Seite 26 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.
Seite 65 - ... curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man. Around, from all the...
Seite 29 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Seite 29 - 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 34 - Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Seite 38 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn, Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. " Then, Pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares arc wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Seite 28 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear...