The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the AuthorB. Tauchnitz, 1842 - 429 pages |
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... orphans and widows of the clergy of our diocese ; for , having a sufficient fortune of my own , I was careless of temporalities , and felt a secret pleasure in doing my duty without reward . I also set a resolution GOLDSMITH'S WORKS .
... orphans and widows of the clergy of our diocese ; for , having a sufficient fortune of my own , I was careless of temporalities , and felt a secret pleasure in doing my duty without reward . I also set a resolution GOLDSMITH'S WORKS .
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... pleasures , being particularly remarkable for his attachment to the fair sex . He observed that no virtue was able to resist his arts and assiduity , and that scarce a farmer's daughter within ten miles round but what had found him ...
... pleasures , being particularly remarkable for his attachment to the fair sex . He observed that no virtue was able to resist his arts and assiduity , and that scarce a farmer's daughter within ten miles round but what had found him ...
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... pleasure I should have in his company , and my wife and daughters joining in intreaty , he was prevailed upon to stay supper . The stranger's conversation , which was at once pleasing and insructive , induced me to wish for a ...
... pleasure I should have in his company , and my wife and daughters joining in intreaty , he was prevailed upon to stay supper . The stranger's conversation , which was at once pleasing and insructive , induced me to wish for a ...
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... pleasure from flattery . He was surrounded with crowds , who showed him only one side of their character ; so that he began to lose a regard for private interest in universal sympathy . He loved all mankind ; for fortune prevented him ...
... pleasure from flattery . He was surrounded with crowds , who showed him only one side of their character ; so that he began to lose a regard for private interest in universal sympathy . He loved all mankind ; for fortune prevented him ...
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... pleasure in the applause of his heart , which he had never learned to reverence . The world now began to wear a different aspect ; the flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation . Approbation soon took the more ...
... pleasure in the applause of his heart , which he had never learned to reverence . The world now began to wear a different aspect ; the flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation . Approbation soon took the more ...
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Page 210 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 210 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven: As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread. Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 209 - All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread...
Page 206 - And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place...
Page 236 - As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings — a dupe to his art.
Page 123 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to...
Page 209 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, 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, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 207 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 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.
Page 251 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel...
Page 76 - Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.