Poems and PlaysMessrs. Price, Sleater, 1785 - 274 pages |
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Page vi
... laft rehearsal of his comedy , intitled , She Stoops to Conquer , which Mr. Coleman thought would not fucceed , on the Doctor's objecting to the repetition of one of Tony Lumpkin's fpeeches , being apprehenfive it might injure the play ...
... laft rehearsal of his comedy , intitled , She Stoops to Conquer , which Mr. Coleman thought would not fucceed , on the Doctor's objecting to the repetition of one of Tony Lumpkin's fpeeches , being apprehenfive it might injure the play ...
Page vii
... bookfellers which he had imagined it would undoubtedly receive ; and he used to lament this circumftance almoft to the laft hour of his existence . He had been for fome years afflicted , at different THE LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH . vii.
... bookfellers which he had imagined it would undoubtedly receive ; and he used to lament this circumftance almoft to the laft hour of his existence . He had been for fome years afflicted , at different THE LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH . vii.
Page ix
... 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 , written by Doctor Samuel Johnson : OLIVARII GOLDSMITH , POETA ...
... 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 , written by Doctor Samuel Johnson : OLIVARII GOLDSMITH , POETA ...
Page 30
... laft , or feebly mans the foul While low delights , fucceeding faft behind , In happier meannefs occupy the mind : ; As in those dooms , where Cæfars once bore fway , Defac'd by time and tott'ring in decay , 155 160 There in the ruin ...
... laft , or feebly mans the foul While low delights , fucceeding faft behind , In happier meannefs occupy the mind : ; As in those dooms , where Cæfars once bore fway , Defac'd by time and tott'ring in decay , 155 160 There in the ruin ...
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... laft . 90 95 ICO 105 O bleft retirement , friend to life's decline , Retreats from care , that never must be mine , How bleft is he who crowns in fhades like these , A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where ftrong ...
... laft . 90 95 ICO 105 O bleft retirement , friend to life's decline , Retreats from care , that never must be mine , How bleft is he who crowns in fhades like these , A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where ftrong ...
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