The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life & Writings to which is Added a Critical Disseetation on His PoetryCadell & Davies, 1805 - Всего страниц: 148 |
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Стр. xliii
... wealth ; the variety of artificial pleasures ; the miseries of those who , for want of employment at home , are driven to settle new colonies abroad ; and concludes with a beauti- ful apostrophe to poetry . " The Hermit ' holds equal ...
... wealth ; the variety of artificial pleasures ; the miseries of those who , for want of employment at home , are driven to settle new colonies abroad ; and concludes with a beauti- ful apostrophe to poetry . " The Hermit ' holds equal ...
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... wealth has given rise to the arts and conveniences of life ; but at the same time has introduced a crafty , cold , and mercenary temper , which sets every thing , even liberty itself , at a price . How different , exclaims the poet ...
... wealth has given rise to the arts and conveniences of life ; but at the same time has introduced a crafty , cold , and mercenary temper , which sets every thing , even liberty itself , at a price . How different , exclaims the poet ...
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... wealth and law must be employed to hold to- gether such a reluctant association ; whence the time may come , that valour , learning , and patrio- tism may all lie levelled in one sink of avarice . These are the ills of freedom ; but the ...
... wealth and law must be employed to hold to- gether such a reluctant association ; whence the time may come , that valour , learning , and patrio- tism may all lie levelled in one sink of avarice . These are the ills of freedom ; but the ...
Стр. lxv
... wealth , in which the sober enquirer will find much serious truth , though mixed with poetical exaggeration . The description of the contrasted scenes of magnifi- cence and misery in a great metropolis , closed by the pathetic figure of ...
... wealth , in which the sober enquirer will find much serious truth , though mixed with poetical exaggeration . The description of the contrasted scenes of magnifi- cence and misery in a great metropolis , closed by the pathetic figure of ...
Стр. lxxviii
... wealthy pride ; " Where luxury's purveyors learn to rise , " And worth , to want a prey , unfriended dies ; " Where warbling eunuchs glitter in brocade , " And hapless poets toil for scanty bread : " Farewell ! to other scenes I turn my ...
... wealthy pride ; " Where luxury's purveyors learn to rise , " And worth , to want a prey , unfriended dies ; " Where warbling eunuchs glitter in brocade , " And hapless poets toil for scanty bread : " Farewell ! to other scenes I turn my ...
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Стр. 38 - 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...
Стр. 57 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Стр. 49 - 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.
Стр. 38 - 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.
Стр. 42 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school , The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind...
Стр. 74 - 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 right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Стр. 28 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Стр. 45 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And...
Стр. 10 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Стр. 48 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...