The Traveller and The Deserted Village: Ed. with Introduction and Notes by Arthur BarrettMacmillan, 1899 - 126 pages |
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The Traveller and the Deserted Village: Ed. with Introduction and Notes by ... Oliver Goldsmith No preview available - 2016 |
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adjective adverb appears avarice Beau Nash beauty birds bittern blessings blest bliss blooms bowers breast called Charles the Bold charms cheerful clergyman climes common convey cottage crown dative Deserted Village desire e'en emigration endear England English epithet expression feeling flowers freedom French gerund Goldsmith happiness heart hoards honour hypallage idea Indian kind labour land laugh letter Lissoy look Lord luxury means mind nature notion noun o'er Old Mortality Pambamarca Paradise Lost participle passage peasant perhaps pleasure poems poet poet's poetical poetry pomp poor praise prefix pride probably qualifies refers reign rich round seems sense shade sinks skill smiling sorrow sound speak sterner virtues Stoops to Conquer storms supplied swain sweet sweet oblivion taken toil Traveller usually verb Vicar of Bray Vicar of Wakefield wealth woods over woods word wretched
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Page 18 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain...
Page 22 - The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 22 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 21 - Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd 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 18 - 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 lap-wing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all. And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
Page 23 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot.
Page 18 - A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches ignorance of wealth.
Page 24 - 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.
Page 19 - 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. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 1 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.