The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller, Volume 31864 - 369 pages |
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... round spectacles , his expression is lively and acute . That is Reynolds— the great painter , that even now gets one hundred guineas for a portrait - the founder of the club , and , ere long , to be a knight , the first President of the ...
... round spectacles , his expression is lively and acute . That is Reynolds— the great painter , that even now gets one hundred guineas for a portrait - the founder of the club , and , ere long , to be a knight , the first President of the ...
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... round , but what had found him . successful and faithless . Though this account gave me some pain , it had a very different effect upon my daughters , whose features seemed to brighten with the expectation of an approaching triumph ...
... round , but what had found him . successful and faithless . Though this account gave me some pain , it had a very different effect upon my daughters , whose features seemed to brighten with the expectation of an approaching triumph ...
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... round him crowds of dependants , whom he was sure to disappoint , yet wished to relieve . These hung upon him for a time , and left him with merited reproaches and contempt . But in proportion as he became contemptible to others , he ...
... round him crowds of dependants , whom he was sure to disappoint , yet wished to relieve . These hung upon him for a time , and left him with merited reproaches and contempt . But in proportion as he became contemptible to others , he ...
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... round us . He again , therefore , offered to salute the female part of the family ; and such was the power of fortune and fine clothes , that he found no second repulse . As his address , though confident , was easy , we soon became ...
... round us . He again , therefore , offered to salute the female part of the family ; and such was the power of fortune and fine clothes , that he found no second repulse . As his address , though confident , was easy , we soon became ...
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... round ; he sung us old songs , and gave the children the story of the Buck of Beverland , with the History of Patient Grissel , the Adventures of Catskin , and then Fair Rosamond's Bower . Our cock , which always crew at eleven , now ...
... round ; he sung us old songs , and gave the children the story of the Buck of Beverland , with the History of Patient Grissel , the Adventures of Catskin , and then Fair Rosamond's Bower . Our cock , which always crew at eleven , now ...
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Page 201 - ... country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to...
Page 202 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to -virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies; He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 197 - And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain: No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way. Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Page 201 - And still where many a garden-flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear...
Page 207 - And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied.
Page 200 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Page 217 - As some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, re-counts it o'er; Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still...
Page 80 - And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And 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...
Page 199 - 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 199 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...