The poems and plays of Oliver GoldsmithIra Bradley & Company, 1818 - 254 páginas |
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... bring To decency so fine a thing ? In short , by night ' twas fits or fretting , By day ' twas gadding or coquetting . Fond to be seen , she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee : The ' squire and captain took their stations ...
... bring To decency so fine a thing ? In short , by night ' twas fits or fretting , By day ' twas gadding or coquetting . Fond to be seen , she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee : The ' squire and captain took their stations ...
Página 57
... bring back lustre to her eyes . In vain she tries her pastes and creams To smooth her skin , or hide its seams ; Her country beaux and city cousins , Lovers no more , flew off by dozens : The ' squire himself was seen to yield , And e ...
... bring back lustre to her eyes . In vain she tries her pastes and creams To smooth her skin , or hide its seams ; Her country beaux and city cousins , Lovers no more , flew off by dozens : The ' squire himself was seen to yield , And e ...
Página 59
... Bring action for assault and battery , Or friend beguile with lies and flattery ? O'er plains they ramble unconfined , No politics disturb their mind ; They eat their meals , and take their sport , Nor know who's in or out at court ...
... Bring action for assault and battery , Or friend beguile with lies and flattery ? O'er plains they ramble unconfined , No politics disturb their mind ; They eat their meals , and take their sport , Nor know who's in or out at court ...
Página 78
... bring it . Miss Cat . Excuse me , ma'am . The epilogue The author bid me sing it . RECITATIVE . Ye beaux and belles , that form this splendid ring , Suspend your conversation while I sing . Mrs. Bulk . Why sure the girl's beside herself ...
... bring it . Miss Cat . Excuse me , ma'am . The epilogue The author bid me sing it . RECITATIVE . Ye beaux and belles , that form this splendid ring , Suspend your conversation while I sing . Mrs. Bulk . Why sure the girl's beside herself ...
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... bring my last letter to the Gazetteer on the increase and progress of earthquakes ? It will amuse us , I promise you . I there prove how the late earthquake is coming round to pay us another visit from London to Lisbon , from Lis- bon ...
... bring my last letter to the Gazetteer on the increase and progress of earthquakes ? It will amuse us , I promise you . I there prove how the late earthquake is coming round to pay us another visit from London to Lisbon , from Lis- bon ...
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assure aunt Bail bar-maid battle of Belgrade believe Bless Charles Marlow charms child Constance daughter David Garrick dress Ecod Enter Miss Exeunt Exit eyes face father favour fear fellow folly fool fortune friendship Garnet gentleman girl give hand happiness Hast hear heart Heaven honour hope horses hour humour impudence Jarvis jewels keep lady laugh leave Leon Leontine letter look Lord madam maid Marlow married mean mind Miss Cat Miss Hard Miss Hardcastle Miss Nev Miss Neville Miss Rich Miss Richland modest never night Oliv OLIVER GOLDSMITH Olivia on't pardon passion pleasure poor Pray pretty pride scarce scene servants Sir Char Sir Wil Sir William Honeywood smiling soul squire STOOPS TO CONQUER sure talk tell there's thing thou Tony undone what's wish young Zounds
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Página 27 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge...
Página 53 - 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 21 - 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...
Página 26 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.
Página 65 - ... curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man. Around, from all the...
Página 29 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Página 29 - 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.
Página 34 - Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; 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!
Página 38 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn, Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. " Then, Pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares arc wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 28 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, 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...