The Poetical Works of Oliver GoldsmithHooker, 1841 - 118 pages |
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... thou , fair Freedom , taught alike to feel The rabble's rage , and tyrant's angry steel ; Thou transitory flower , alike undone By proud contempt , or favour's fostering sun : Still may thy blooms the changeful clime endure , I only ...
... thou , fair Freedom , taught alike to feel The rabble's rage , and tyrant's angry steel ; Thou transitory flower , alike undone By proud contempt , or favour's fostering sun : Still may thy blooms the changeful clime endure , I only ...
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... thou curs'd by Heaven's decree , How ill exchang'd are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions , with insidious joy , Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee , to sickly greatness grown , Boast of a florid ...
... thou curs'd by Heaven's decree , How ill exchang'd are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions , with insidious joy , Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee , to sickly greatness grown , Boast of a florid ...
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... Thou source of all my bliss , and all my woe , That found'st me poor at first , and keep'st me so ; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel , Thou nurse of every virtue , fare thee well : Farewell ; and oh ! where'er thy voice be ...
... Thou source of all my bliss , and all my woe , That found'st me poor at first , and keep'st me so ; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel , Thou nurse of every virtue , fare thee well : Farewell ; and oh ! where'er thy voice be ...
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... Thou best - humour'd man with the worst- humour'd muse . ' * Mr . H. S. Woodfall , printer of the Public Adver- tiser . + Mr. Whitefoord has frequently indulged the town with humourous pieces under those titles in the Public Advertiser ...
... Thou best - humour'd man with the worst- humour'd muse . ' * Mr . H. S. Woodfall , printer of the Public Adver- tiser . + Mr. Whitefoord has frequently indulged the town with humourous pieces under those titles in the Public Advertiser ...
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... thou rove ; Or grieve for friendship unreturn'd , Or unregarded love ? ' Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling , and decay : And those who prize the paltry things , More trifling still than they . ' And what is friendship but ...
... thou rove ; Or grieve for friendship unreturn'd , Or unregarded love ? ' Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling , and decay : And those who prize the paltry things , More trifling still than they . ' And what is friendship but ...
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Page 36 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd 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 67 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 32 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly!
Page 61 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 4 - Through richest purple to the view Betray'da golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd, in vain, to reach the prize...
Page 53 - Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry,...
Page 61 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit : Too nice for a statesman ; too proud for a wit ; For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge disobedient ; And too fond of the rigid to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir — To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Page 29 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old...
Page 13 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Page 41 - Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn ; Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head...