The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life & Writings to which is Added a Critical Disseetation on His PoetryCadell & Davies, 1805 - 148 עמודים |
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עמוד lii
... lost and confounded . To catch the discriminating features , and present them bold and prominent , by few , but decisive strokes , is the talent of a master ; and it will not be easy to produce a superior to GOLDSMITH in this re- spect ...
... lost and confounded . To catch the discriminating features , and present them bold and prominent , by few , but decisive strokes , is the talent of a master ; and it will not be easy to produce a superior to GOLDSMITH in this re- spect ...
עמוד lxxiv
... lost maid ! ah ! well with drooping head , With tear unceasing , may'st thou mourn the dead ! Thy fav'rite gone , no shelt'ring breast remains To stay thy flight , detain thee on our plains , Vain now thy charms , untaught and unadorn'd ...
... lost maid ! ah ! well with drooping head , With tear unceasing , may'st thou mourn the dead ! Thy fav'rite gone , no shelt'ring breast remains To stay thy flight , detain thee on our plains , Vain now thy charms , untaught and unadorn'd ...
עמוד lxxv
... lost , but wish in vain ; In beechen shades , on margins green to play No more , but heartless toil through the long day . Those harmless sports which ye have left behind , Those hearty joys that speak the vacant mind , Those simple ...
... lost , but wish in vain ; In beechen shades , on margins green to play No more , but heartless toil through the long day . Those harmless sports which ye have left behind , Those hearty joys that speak the vacant mind , Those simple ...
עמוד lxxix
... lost companion of my youthful days , " With whose sweet converse in the social bow'r " I oft may chide away some vacant hour " To whose pure sympathy I may impart " Each latent grief that labours at my heart ; " Whate'er I felt , and ...
... lost companion of my youthful days , " With whose sweet converse in the social bow'r " I oft may chide away some vacant hour " To whose pure sympathy I may impart " Each latent grief that labours at my heart ; " Whate'er I felt , and ...
עמוד lxxx
... lost and distant objects rise . 66 Here , where encircled o'er the sloping land " Woods rise on woods , shall Aristotle stand ; " Lyceum round the godlike man rejoice , " And bow with reverence to wisdom's voice . " There , spreading ...
... lost and distant objects rise . 66 Here , where encircled o'er the sloping land " Woods rise on woods , shall Aristotle stand ; " Lyceum round the godlike man rejoice , " And bow with reverence to wisdom's voice . " There , spreading ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Æsop Amidst Auburn blest bliss boast bosom bow'rs breast BULKLEY Burke character charms comedy David Garrick dear death Deserted Village diff'rent e'en Edmund Burke Elphin Epilogue EPITAPH ev'ning ev'ry eyes fame flies follow'd folly fond forlorn genius give HAUNCH OF VENISON heart heav'n hermit honour hour humble humour JAMES BOSWELL Johnson lamp-black land learning lord lover luxury mankind mind mirth MISS CATLEY modern bards moral muse nature ne'er never night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain passion pasty plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor pow'r praise pride rise round scene shew'd sigh simile Sir Joshua Reynolds skies smiling song sorrow soul spread Stoops Stoops to Conquer stranger swain sweet SWEET AUBURN tear thee thine things thou toil tomb Traveller truth turn Twas Vicar of Wakefield wealth Whilst wond'rous wretch write
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עמוד 38 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
עמוד 57 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
עמוד 49 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
עמוד 38 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn : Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
עמוד 42 - 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...
עמוד 74 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
עמוד 28 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
עמוד 45 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And...
עמוד 10 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
עמוד 48 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...