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Page xliii
True , ' replied the stranger , ' for it may be said that I am risen from the dead ,
having been for many years supposed to be no longer in the land of the living . I
am Charles , the youngest of the family . Oliver , I know , is dead ; but of Henry
and ...
True , ' replied the stranger , ' for it may be said that I am risen from the dead ,
having been for many years supposed to be no longer in the land of the living . I
am Charles , the youngest of the family . Oliver , I know , is dead ; but of Henry
and ...
Page ci
Gay , sprightly land of mirth and social ease , Pleas ' d with thyself , whom all the
world can please , How often have I led thy sportive choir , With tuneless pipe ,
beside the murmuring Loire ! Where shading elms along the margin grew , And ...
Gay , sprightly land of mirth and social ease , Pleas ' d with thyself , whom all the
world can please , How often have I led thy sportive choir , With tuneless pipe ,
beside the murmuring Loire ! Where shading elms along the margin grew , And ...
Page 12
... northern sky With vernal lives , that blossom but to die ; These , here disporting
, own the kindred soil , Nor ask luxuriance from the planter ' s toil ; While sea -
born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land
.
... northern sky With vernal lives , that blossom but to die ; These , here disporting
, own the kindred soil , Nor ask luxuriance from the planter ' s toil ; While sea -
born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land
.
Page 16
Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies , That first excites desire ,
and then supplies ; Unknown to them , when sensual pleasures cloy , To fill the
languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame ...
Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies , That first excites desire ,
and then supplies ; Unknown to them , when sensual pleasures cloy , To fill the
languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame ...
Page 17
Gay , sprightly land of mirth and social ease , Pleas ' d with thyself , whom all the
world can please , How often have I led thy sportive choir , With tuneless pipe ,
beside the murmuring Loire ! Where shading elms along the margin grew , And ...
Gay , sprightly land of mirth and social ease , Pleas ' d with thyself , whom all the
world can please , How often have I led thy sportive choir , With tuneless pipe ,
beside the murmuring Loire ! Where shading elms along the margin grew , And ...
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| Title | Poetical Works |
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1862 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 mär. 2009 |
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