Essays on Goldsmith by Scott, Macaulay, and Thackeray: And Selections from His WritingsOliver Goldsmith, Grace Eleanor Hadow, Charles Bickersteth Wheeler, Walter Scott, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray Clarendon Press, 1946 - 200 pages |
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... charms are there combin'd , Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state , With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port , defiance in their eye , I see the lords of human kind pass by ...
... charms are there combin'd , Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state , With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port , defiance in their eye , I see the lords of human kind pass by ...
Page 77
... charms , sweet village ! sports like these , With sweet succession , taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms - but all these charms are fled . ; Sweet smiling village ...
... charms , sweet village ! sports like these , With sweet succession , taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms - but all these charms are fled . ; Sweet smiling village ...
Page 85
... charms are past , for charms are frail , When time advances , and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the land by luxury betray'd ; In nature's simplest charms ...
... charms are past , for charms are frail , When time advances , and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the land by luxury betray'd ; In nature's simplest charms ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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