The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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... pleasure , which , with Englishmen , is never made in vain . Employing the couplet of Pope and Johnson , he has ✓'added to his measure a suavity that belonged to neither ; but the beauty of his humanity and the tender melan- choly of ...
... pleasure , which , with Englishmen , is never made in vain . Employing the couplet of Pope and Johnson , he has ✓'added to his measure a suavity that belonged to neither ; but the beauty of his humanity and the tender melan- choly of ...
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... pleasure in what contributes to increase the distemper . Like the tiger , that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh , the reader , who has once gratified his appe- tite with calumny , makes , ever ...
... pleasure in what contributes to increase the distemper . Like the tiger , that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh , the reader , who has once gratified his appe- tite with calumny , makes , ever ...
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... pleasures are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest . [ 1i . e . wolf or bear . Pope uses the word several times in this sense . ] Whence from such lands each pleasing science ...
... pleasures are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest . [ 1i . e . wolf or bear . Pope uses the word several times in this sense . ] Whence from such lands each pleasing science ...
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... pleasures cloy , To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame , Catch every nerve , and vibrate through the frame . Their level life is but a smould'ring fire , Unquench'd by want , unfann ...
... pleasures cloy , To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame , Catch every nerve , and vibrate through the frame . Their level life is but a smould'ring fire , Unquench'd by want , unfann ...
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... pleasure on another's breast . Hence ostentation here , with tawdry art , Pants for the vulgar praise which fools impart ; Here vanity assumes her pert grimace , And trims her robes of frieze with copper lace ; Here beggar pride ...
... pleasure on another's breast . Hence ostentation here , with tawdry art , Pants for the vulgar praise which fools impart ; Here vanity assumes her pert grimace , And trims her robes of frieze with copper lace ; Here beggar pride ...
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