PoemsW. A. Bartow, 1821 - 216 pages |
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... wish , amidst the scene , to find Some spot to real happiness consigned , Where my worn soul , each wandering hope at rest , May gather bliss to see my fellows blessed . But where to find that happiest spot below , Who can direct , when ...
... wish , amidst the scene , to find Some spot to real happiness consigned , Where my worn soul , each wandering hope at rest , May gather bliss to see my fellows blessed . But where to find that happiest spot below , Who can direct , when ...
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... wish contracting , fits him to the soil . Cheerful at morn , he wakes from short repose , Breathes the keen air , and carols as he goes : With patent angle trolls the finny deep , Or drives his venturous plough - share to the steep ; Or ...
... wish contracting , fits him to the soil . Cheerful at morn , he wakes from short repose , Breathes the keen air , and carols as he goes : With patent angle trolls the finny deep , Or drives his venturous plough - share to the steep ; Or ...
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... wishes all confined . Yet let them only share the praises due ; If few their wants , their pleasures are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast , Becomes a source of pleasure when redressed . Whence from such lands each ...
... wishes all confined . Yet let them only share the praises due ; If few their wants , their pleasures are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast , Becomes a source of pleasure when redressed . Whence from such lands each ...
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... the sake of novelty and variety , one would sometimes wish to be in the right . I am , dear sir , your sincere friend , and ardent admirer , OLIVER GOLDSMITH . THE DESERTED VILLAGE . SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of * 44 DEDICATION .
... the sake of novelty and variety , one would sometimes wish to be in the right . I am , dear sir , your sincere friend , and ardent admirer , OLIVER GOLDSMITH . THE DESERTED VILLAGE . SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of * 44 DEDICATION .
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... wish obtain , The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And , even while fashion's brightest arts decoy , The heart distrusting asks , if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth , ye statesmen , who survey The rich man's joys increase , the ...
... wish obtain , The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And , even while fashion's brightest arts decoy , The heart distrusting asks , if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth , ye statesmen , who survey The rich man's joys increase , the ...
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acquaintance Alcander amusement appearance beauty blessed bliss breast Bulkley charms creature cried Asem David Garrick dear distress dress e'en Eastcheap Edmund Burke Epilogue eyes Falstaff fancy fond fool fortune friendship genius gentleman give Goldsmith good-natured happiness heart heaven honour humour kingdom of Ireland kings knew lady learning lived lord luxury Lysippus mad dog manner master mind mirth Miss Catley nature neral never night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once passion pasty perceived pity pleased pleasure poem poet poor praise pride replied repug round scarce seemed Septimius Sir Joshua Reynolds smiling society soon sorrow soul Stoops to Conquer story sure SWEET AUBURN tavern tell terror thee thing thou thought thousand guineas toil turn twas venison vice Vide page 68 village virtue wealth Whitefoord whole wisdom woman wretch youth
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Page 51 - 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 ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 45 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm.
Page 46 - While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; 20 And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round; 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...
Page 53 - No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear...
Page 49 - 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 ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...
Page 47 - 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 46 - 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 50 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there, and had his claims allowed...
Page 30 - No product here the barren hills afford But man and steel, the soldier and his sword ; No vernal blooms their torpid- rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.