The Poetical Works ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 355 pages |
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... toils meaner still , the man of genius was condemned to waste so many of his precious days . For the works which have made Goldsmith immortal were but the fruit of hours snatched at intervals from the hard labour forced on him for bread ...
... toils meaner still , the man of genius was condemned to waste so many of his precious days . For the works which have made Goldsmith immortal were but the fruit of hours snatched at intervals from the hard labour forced on him for bread ...
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... toils which had still to be prosecuted . Early in 1769 , just before the appearance of his agreeable but superficial Roman History , he entered on a new and very formidable bargain . This was for the writing of the " History of the ...
... toils which had still to be prosecuted . Early in 1769 , just before the appearance of his agreeable but superficial Roman History , he entered on a new and very formidable bargain . This was for the writing of the " History of the ...
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... toil , and trim their evening fire ; Blest that abode , where want and pain repair , And every stranger finds a ready chair ; Blest be those feasts , with simple plenty crowned , Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or ...
... toil , and trim their evening fire ; Blest that abode , where want and pain repair , And every stranger finds a ready chair ; Blest be those feasts , with simple plenty crowned , Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or ...
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... toil ; While sea - born gales their gelid wings expand , To winnow fragrance round the smiling land . But small the bliss that sense alone bestows , And sensual bliss is all the nation knows . In florid beauty groves and fields appear ...
... toil ; While sea - born gales their gelid wings expand , To winnow fragrance round the smiling land . But small the bliss that sense alone bestows , And sensual bliss is all the nation knows . In florid beauty groves and fields appear ...
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... toil , Each wish contracting , fits him to the soil . Cheerful , at morn , he wakes from short repose , Breathes the keen air , and carols as he goes ; With patient angle trolls the finny deep , Or drives his venturous ploughshare to ...
... toil , Each wish contracting , fits him to the soil . Cheerful , at morn , he wakes from short repose , Breathes the keen air , and carols as he goes ; With patient angle trolls the finny deep , Or drives his venturous ploughshare to ...
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Ballads beauty blessings blest bliss bound in cloth breast BULKLEY Burke CHALDEAN CHARLES BENNETT CHARLES GRIFFIN charms cheer CHORUS cloth and gold cloth gilt elegant comedy Covent Garden cried David Garrick dear Edited EDMUND BURKE EPILOGUE essays eyes fame Fcap fear flies folly handsomely bound heart Heaven honour Illustrated Johnson Kilkenny labour land Lord luxury Memoir and Notes mind mirth MISS CATLEY never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain Pasty plain pleasure poem Poetical Poets poor praise pride rage raptures Recitative Reynolds rise ROBERT BELL round Royal 8vo scene SECOND PRIEST SECOND PROPHET sigh sinks sizar skies smiling SONG sorrow soul spread spurn Stoops to Conquer supplies swain sweet SWEET Auburn thee thine thou thoughts toil Toned Paper triumph turn Twas Ven'son village wealth weep Whitefoord WILLIAM SPALDING WOMAN wretch yonder youth