Select Poems of Oliver GoldsmithHarper & brothers, 1878 - 144 oldal |
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13th eds 1st and 13th admirable Amidst Auburn Ballymahon Ben Jonson blessings blest bliss booksellers bowers breast brother Burke character charms child climes Correggios couplet David Garrick dear decay Deserted Village England English fairy gifts fault feebly flies game of goose Garrick grace grave Hales happiness heart honour humble humour Irish Irving Johnson labour land Latin Lissoy luxury mansion Merchant of Venice metonymy Milton mind mirth native nature never o'er Oliver Goldsmith once play pleas'd pleasure poem poet poetical poetry pomp poor praise pride Rapparee Retaliation round says scene seems sense Shakes Shakespeare sinks Sir Joshua Reynolds sizar smile soul Stoops to Conquer swains sweet Sweet Auburn thou thought toil Trav Traveller truth turn verses Vicar of Wakefield virtue vulgar wandering Washington Irving wealth Whitefoord word wretched writings wrote
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78. oldal - 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...
75. oldal - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please — How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
84. oldal - The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules...
84. oldal - 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 when he frowned.
104. oldal - 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...
102. oldal - As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings — a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.
100. oldal - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
84. oldal - For even though vanquish'd, he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
77. oldal - 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. But times are alter'd : trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain...
58. oldal - No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. Yet still, even here, content can spread a charm, Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts tho...