The Poetical Works of Oliver GoldsmithHooker, 1841 - 118 страници |
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... honour , liberty , content . Yet these each other's power so strong contest , That either seems destructive of the rest . Where wealth and freedom reign , contentment fails ; Andhonour sinks where commerce long prevails . Hence every ...
... honour , liberty , content . Yet these each other's power so strong contest , That either seems destructive of the rest . Where wealth and freedom reign , contentment fails ; Andhonour sinks where commerce long prevails . Hence every ...
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... honour forms the social temper here . Honour , that praise which real merit gains , Or e'en imaginary worth obtains , Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand , It shifts , in splendid traffic , round the land . From courts to camps ...
... honour forms the social temper here . Honour , that praise which real merit gains , Or e'en imaginary worth obtains , Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand , It shifts , in splendid traffic , round the land . From courts to camps ...
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... honour , fail to sway , Fictitious bonds , the bonds of wealth and law , Still gather strength , and force unwilling awe . Hence all obedience bows to these alone , And talent sinks and merit weeps unknown ; Till time may come , when ...
... honour , fail to sway , Fictitious bonds , the bonds of wealth and law , Still gather strength , and force unwilling awe . Hence all obedience bows to these alone , And talent sinks and merit weeps unknown ; Till time may come , when ...
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... honour in its source , Gave wealth to sway the mind with double force . Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful sons exchanged for useless ore ; Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers ...
... honour in its source , Gave wealth to sway the mind with double force . Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful sons exchanged for useless ore ; Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers ...
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... honour , yet fearing to roam , The coachman was tipsy , the chariot drove home . Would you ask for his merits ? alas ! he had none : What was good was spontaneous , his faults were his own . Here lies honest Richard , whose fate I must ...
... honour , yet fearing to roam , The coachman was tipsy , the chariot drove home . Would you ask for his merits ? alas ! he had none : What was good was spontaneous , his faults were his own . Here lies honest Richard , whose fate I must ...
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Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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!
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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,...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...