Goldsmith's Poems and PlaysJ.M. Dent, 1960 - 317 pages |
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Page 31
... pleasure , all In barren splendour feebly waits the fall . As some fair female unadorn'd and plain , Secure to please while youth confirms her reign , Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies , Nor shares with art the triumph of ...
... pleasure , all In barren splendour feebly waits the fall . As some fair female unadorn'd and plain , Secure to please while youth confirms her reign , Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies , Nor shares with art the triumph of ...
Page 33
... pleasure pass'd , Hung round their bowers , and fondly look'd their last , And took a long farewell , and wish'd in vain For seats like these beyond the western main ; And shuddering still to face the distant deep , Return'd and wept ...
... pleasure pass'd , Hung round their bowers , and fondly look'd their last , And took a long farewell , and wish'd in vain For seats like these beyond the western main ; And shuddering still to face the distant deep , Return'd and wept ...
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... pleasure of being grateful ? Of adding my thanks to my Olivia's ! Of sharing in the transports that you have thus occasioned ? Croaker . Lord , sir , we can be happy enough , without your coming in to make up the party . I don't know ...
... pleasure of being grateful ? Of adding my thanks to my Olivia's ! Of sharing in the transports that you have thus occasioned ? Croaker . Lord , sir , we can be happy enough , without your coming in to make up the party . I don't know ...
Contents
THE DESERTED VILLAGE | 16 |
Part of a Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius | 53 |
On Seeing Mrs perform in the Character of | 59 |
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