The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a LifeLittle, Brown & Company, 1862 - 214 pages |
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... archer ne'er come down To ravage in a country town ; Or Flavia been content to stop At triumphs in a Fleet - street shop ! Oh , had her eyes forgot to blaze ; Or Jack had wanted eyes to gaze ! Oh ! but let exclamation cease , 1 Printed ...
... archer ne'er come down To ravage in a country town ; Or Flavia been content to stop At triumphs in a Fleet - street shop ! Oh , had her eyes forgot to blaze ; Or Jack had wanted eyes to gaze ! Oh ! but let exclamation cease , 1 Printed ...
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... warriors glowing after fame , There prancing Knights and dexterous Archers came , And Elephants , that on their backs sustain Vast towers of war , and fill and shake the plain . And now both hosts , preparing for the storm Of 192 THE POEMS.
... warriors glowing after fame , There prancing Knights and dexterous Archers came , And Elephants , that on their backs sustain Vast towers of war , and fill and shake the plain . And now both hosts , preparing for the storm Of 192 THE POEMS.
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... Archers , two that snowy - white Bend the tough yew , and two as black as night ; ( Greece call'd them Mars's favourites heretofore , From their delight in war , and thirst of gore . ) ; These on each side the Monarch and his Queen ...
... Archers , two that snowy - white Bend the tough yew , and two as black as night ; ( Greece call'd them Mars's favourites heretofore , From their delight in war , and thirst of gore . ) ; These on each side the Monarch and his Queen ...
Page 200
... and feigns Such a wrong step would frustrate all his pains . Just then an Archer , from the right - hand view , At the male Queen his arrow boldly drew , Unseen by Phoebus , who , with studious thought , 200 THE POEMS.
... and feigns Such a wrong step would frustrate all his pains . Just then an Archer , from the right - hand view , At the male Queen his arrow boldly drew , Unseen by Phoebus , who , with studious thought , 200 THE POEMS.
Page 202
... Archer from the throng , And bid him like the courser wheel along : Bounding he springs , and threats the pallid Queen . The fraud , however , was by Phoebus seen ; He smiled , and turning to the Gods , he said , " Though , Hermes , you ...
... Archer from the throng , And bid him like the courser wheel along : Bounding he springs , and threats the pallid Queen . The fraud , however , was by Phoebus seen ; He smiled , and turning to the Gods , he said , " Though , Hermes , you ...
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Page 42 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled 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 ; 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...
Page 37 - 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 25 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page lxx - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
Page 37 - 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 39 - 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 46 - While, scourged by famine from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave.
Page 57 - 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 supply'd, And water from the spring. " Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego; All earth-born cares are wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page 15 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 45 - 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...