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Page ix
... took orders , and settled at a place called Pallas , in the county of Longford . There he with diffi- culty supported his wife and children on what he could earn , partly as a curate , and partly as a farmer . At Pallas , Oliver ...
... took orders , and settled at a place called Pallas , in the county of Longford . There he with diffi- culty supported his wife and children on what he could earn , partly as a curate , and partly as a farmer . At Pallas , Oliver ...
Page xv
... took place at Paris . Now , it is certain that Voltaire never was within a hundred leagues of Paris during the whole time which Goldsmith passed on the continent . In 1756 , the wanderer landed at Dover , with- out a shilling , without ...
... took place at Paris . Now , it is certain that Voltaire never was within a hundred leagues of Paris during the whole time which Goldsmith passed on the continent . In 1756 , the wanderer landed at Dover , with- out a shilling , without ...
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... took a garret in a miserable court , to which he had to climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder of flagstones called Breakneck Steps . The court and the ascent have long disappeared ; but old Londoners well re- member both ...
... took a garret in a miserable court , to which he had to climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder of flagstones called Breakneck Steps . The court and the ascent have long disappeared ; but old Londoners well re- member both ...
Page xix
... took it to a bookseller , sold it for £ 60 , and soon returned with the money . The rent was paid ; and the sheriff's officer withdrew . According to one story , Gold- smith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him ...
... took it to a bookseller , sold it for £ 60 , and soon returned with the money . The rent was paid ; and the sheriff's officer withdrew . According to one story , Gold- smith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him ...
Page xxvii
... took a part in conversation , an empty , noisy , blundering rattler . But on this point the evidence is over- whelming . So extraordinary was the contrast between Goldsmith's published works and the silly things which he said , that ...
... took a part in conversation , an empty , noisy , blundering rattler . But on this point the evidence is over- whelming . So extraordinary was the contrast between Goldsmith's published works and the silly things which he said , that ...
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Page 31 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Page 31 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 19 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 33 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 39 - 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...
Page 35 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven.
Page 30 - A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd 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 27 - Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain; Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed: 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!
Page 28 - 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 surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round...
Page 1 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.