Select Poems of Oliver GoldsmithHarper & brothers, 1875 - 144 páginas |
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13th eds 1st and 13th admirable Æsop Amidst Auburn Ballymahon Ben Jonson blessings blest bliss booksellers bowers breast brother Burke character charms climes Correggios couplet David Garrick dear decay Deserted Village England English fairy gifts fault feebly flatter flies game of goose Garrick grace grave Hales happiness heart honour humble humour Irish Irving Johnson labour land Latin Lissoy luxury mansion Merchant of Venice metonymy Milton mind mirth native nature never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once play pleas'd pleasure poem poet poetical poetry pomp poor praise pride Rapparee Retaliation round says scene seems sense Shakes Shakespeare sinks Sir Joshua Reynolds sizar smile soul Stoops to Conquer swains sweet Sweet Auburn thou thought toil Trav Traveller truth turn verses Vicar of Wakefield virtue vulgar wandering Washington Irving wealth word wretched writings wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 76 - 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.
Página 85 - The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules...
Página 107 - 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...
Página 85 - 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 ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Página 103 - 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.
Página 85 - For even though vanquish'd, 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.
Página 127 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Página 63 - Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
Página 127 - 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...
Página 56 - While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. • Contrasted faults through all his manners reign ; Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain , Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And e'en in penance planning sins anew.