Goldsmith's The Deserted VillageGinn, 1907 - 32 pages |
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... poem , the sketch of the poor parson from Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and Dryden's Character of a Good Parson . Obligation to preceding editions of a poem so often edited as The Deserted Village is a matter of course ...
... poem , the sketch of the poor parson from Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and Dryden's Character of a Good Parson . Obligation to preceding editions of a poem so often edited as The Deserted Village is a matter of course ...
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... poem was written , was a period of strong depression with regard to the national future . England was thought to be on the verge of bankruptcy , because of the vast proportions of the national debt ; the fre- quent emigration , really a ...
... poem was written , was a period of strong depression with regard to the national future . England was thought to be on the verge of bankruptcy , because of the vast proportions of the national debt ; the fre- quent emigration , really a ...
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... poem less typical ; but there was undoubtedly much suffering . Literary Conditions . Goldsmith lived and wrote in the tran- sitional period linking the age of Pope , generally called the classical age , with the romantic reaction to be ...
... poem less typical ; but there was undoubtedly much suffering . Literary Conditions . Goldsmith lived and wrote in the tran- sitional period linking the age of Pope , generally called the classical age , with the romantic reaction to be ...
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... poems , The Traveller ( 1764 ) and The Deserted Village ( 1770 ) , his novel The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) , and the plays The Good - Natured Man ( 1768 ) and She Stoops to Conquer ( 1773 ) , the latter being his last impor- tant work ...
... poems , The Traveller ( 1764 ) and The Deserted Village ( 1770 ) , his novel The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) , and the plays The Good - Natured Man ( 1768 ) and She Stoops to Conquer ( 1773 ) , the latter being his last impor- tant work ...
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... poems , and two of the most entertaining comedies of the age . In spite of the con- servative influence of Dr. Johnson , he showed , in many re- spects , strong romantic tendencies . We should not look to him for work that is profound ...
... poems , and two of the most entertaining comedies of the age . In spite of the con- servative influence of Dr. Johnson , he showed , in many re- spects , strong romantic tendencies . We should not look to him for work that is profound ...
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Page 5 - The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school , The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind, — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 7 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven, As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, • Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page xviii - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated.
Page 6 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 7 - 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.
Page xviii - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Page 9 - Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. 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 6 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned 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 3 - Here, as I take my solitary rounds Amidst thy tangling walks and ruined grounds, And many a year elapsed, return to view Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Page 2 - And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. 50 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, 55 When once destroyed, can never be supplied.