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" O Memory ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain... "
Forget-me-not: Or, the Philipena - Page 85
1852 - 128 pages
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 50

Early English newspapers - 1780 - 688 pages
...naturcd Man, and She Stoops to Conquer. From his poems we will fcleft a long and an epigram. SONG. " 0 Memory, thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and...To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the pad to pain : Thou, like the world, th' opprefs'd opprcffing, Thy fmiles increafe the wretch's woe...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Now First ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 204 pages
...way ; And ftill, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. SONG. SONG. • « vy Memory ! them fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys, recurring ever, And turning all the paft to pain ; Thou, like the world, the oppreft oppreffing, Thy fmiles increafe the wretch's woe ?...
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Drinking songs. Miscellaneous songs. Ancient ballads

Ballads, English - 1783 - 360 pages
...chears the way ; And Itill, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. SONG XXXIX. HY THE SAME. O Memory ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and...To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the paft to pain. Thou, like the world, th' oppreft oppreffing, Thy fmiles increafe the wretches woe !...
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The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive ...

John Adams - English poetry - 1789 - 376 pages
...fhake with guilty fear, And proud Iberia fupplicate for peace. SHEPHERD. SECT. CLXXX. TO MEMORY. I. /"\ MEMORY ! thou fond deceiver, ^-^ Still importunate...To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the paft to pain : II. Thou, like the world, th' oppreft oppreffing, Thy fmiles increafe the wretch's woe...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...cheers the way ; And ftill, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. SONG. SONG, t I * \_) MEMORY ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and...To former joys, recurring ever, And turning all the paft to pain j Thou, like the world, the oppreft oppreffing. Thy fmiles increafe the wretch's woe t...
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The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1794 - 124 pages
...her fliame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bofom— is, to die. SONGS. O MEMORY! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and...To former joys, recurring ever, And turning all the paft to pain ; Thou, like the world, the oppreft oppreffing, Thy fmiles increafe the wretch's woe;...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...cheers the way ; And ftill, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. § 61. Song. ГЛ M EMORY! thou fond deceiver, ^-' Still importunate and vain,...To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the paft to pain : Thou, like the world, th' oppieft opprefling, Thy fin ¡lei increafe the wretch's woe!...
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...discover ; She that gives all to the false one pursuing her, Makes but a penitent, and loses a lover. O MEMORY ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and...turning all the past to pain; Thou, like the world, th' opprest oppressing, Thy smiles increase the wretch's woe! And he who wants each other blessing,...
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The temple of Apollo, being a selection of the best poems, from the most ...

Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...Together freed, their gentle fpirits fly To fcenes where LOVE and blifs immortal reign. MEMORY. C\ MEMORY ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and...To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the paft. to pain : Thou, like the world, the oppreft oppreffing, Thy fmiles increafe the wretch's woe...
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The children of the abbey, Volume 1

Regina Maria Roche - 1800 - 314 pages
...lofs, as almoft unfits the foul for any exertions. 'Tis indeed. beautifully detcribed in thefe lines— Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the paft to pain." Amanda attentively watched him, and thought what he faid appeared particularly applicable...
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