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" Here passes current; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffic round the land: From courts, to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise. "
The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 64
by John Forster - 1854 - 548 pages
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry, Volumes 3-4

John Bell - 1789 - 396 pages
...the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burthen of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy...Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear, For honor forms the social temper here. Honor, that praise which real merit gains, Or even imaginary worth...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...gay grandsire, skill'd in gestick lore, Has frisk'd, beneath the burden of threescore. So bless'da life these thoughtless realms display; Thus idly busy...current; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffick round the land : From courts, to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy...Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear, For honor forma the social temper here. Honor, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy rolls their world awayi Theirs arc those arts that mind to mind endear, For honour forms...merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth obtains, Here pusses current ; paid from hand to hand It shifts in splendid traffic round the land From courts to...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burthen of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy...Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear, For honor forms the social temper here. Honor, that praise which real merit gains, Or even imaginary worth...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk' d beneath the burthen of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy...imaginary worth obtains, Here passes current ; paid from band to hand, It shifts, in splendid traffic, round the land way, From courts, to camps, to collages...
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Essays, Poems and Plays: With a Preface

Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...heneath the horden of threescore. So blest a life these thonghtless realms display ; Thns idly bnsy rolls their world away : Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear, For hononr forms the social temper here. Hononr, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...mirth and social ease, Pleas'd with thyself, whom all the world- can please. * * * * * * * So blest a. life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy rolls their world away: Theirs Theirs are those arts that mind to rnind endear. For honour forms the social temper here. Honour, that...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.

Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burthen of threescore. . , So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy...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 traffick...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

1814 - 310 pages
...the gay gvandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burthen of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy...Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear ; For honor forms the social temper here. Honor, that praise which real merit gains, Or ev'n. imaginary worth...
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