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Page ii
By the friendship of Mr. Laughlin Maclane and Dr. Sleigh , who were then in the college , he was foon delivered out of the hands of the bailiff , and took his paffage on board a Dutch fhip to Rotterdam , where , after a fhort ftay ...
By the friendship of Mr. Laughlin Maclane and Dr. Sleigh , who were then in the college , he was foon delivered out of the hands of the bailiff , and took his paffage on board a Dutch fhip to Rotterdam , where , after a fhort ftay ...
Page ix
... though his embarraffed fituation prevented him from putting the laft hand to many of his productions , his Hermit , his Traveller , and his London , and is fhortly to be placed in Westminster - abbey , with the following infcription ...
... though his embarraffed fituation prevented him from putting the laft hand to many of his productions , his Hermit , his Traveller , and his London , and is fhortly to be placed in Westminster - abbey , with the following infcription ...
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... And here my fimile unites , For in a modern poet's flights , I'm fure it may be justly said , His feet are useful as his head . ; Laftly , vouchsafe t'obferve his hand , Fill'd with a fnake - incircled wand .
... And here my fimile unites , For in a modern poet's flights , I'm fure it may be justly said , His feet are useful as his head . ; Laftly , vouchsafe t'obferve his hand , Fill'd with a fnake - incircled wand .
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Honour , that praife which real merit gains , Or ev❜n imaginary worth obtains , Here paffes current ; paid from hand to hand , It shifts in fplendid traffic round the land : From courts , to camps , to cottages it ftrays , And all are ...
Honour , that praife which real merit gains , Or ev❜n imaginary worth obtains , Here paffes current ; paid from hand to hand , It shifts in fplendid traffic round the land : From courts , to camps , to cottages it ftrays , And all are ...
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... By forms unfashion'd fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul , True to imagin'd right , above controul , While ev'n the peasant boasts these rights to scan , And learns to venerate himself as man .
... By forms unfashion'd fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul , True to imagin'd right , above controul , While ev'n the peasant boasts these rights to scan , And learns to venerate himself as man .
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| Title | Poems and Plays |
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | Messrs. Price, Sleater, 1785 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Oct 2008 |
| Length | 274 pages |
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