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Our wanderer was left once more upon the world at large , and paffed through a pumber of difficulties in traverfing the greatest part of France . At length his curiofity being gratified , he bent his courfe towards England , and arrived ...
Our wanderer was left once more upon the world at large , and paffed through a pumber of difficulties in traverfing the greatest part of France . At length his curiofity being gratified , he bent his courfe towards England , and arrived ...
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Here then at once I welcome ev'ry shame , And cancel at three - score a life of fame ; * This tranflation was firft printed in one of our Author's earliest works , The present state of learning in Europe , 12mos No more my titles fhall ...
Here then at once I welcome ev'ry shame , And cancel at three - score a life of fame ; * This tranflation was firft printed in one of our Author's earliest works , The present state of learning in Europe , 12mos No more my titles fhall ...
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... Painting and Mufic come in for a fhare . As thefe offer the feeble mind a lefs laborious entertainment , they at firft rival Poetry , and at length fupplant her ; they engrofs all that favour once fhewn TO THE.
... Painting and Mufic come in for a fhare . As thefe offer the feeble mind a lefs laborious entertainment , they at firft rival Poetry , and at length fupplant her ; they engrofs all that favour once fhewn TO THE.
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fupplant her ; they engrofs all that favour once fhewn to her , and though but younger fifters , feize upon the elder's birth - right . YET , however this art may be neglected by the powerful , it is still in greater danger from the ...
fupplant her ; they engrofs all that favour once fhewn to her , and though but younger fifters , feize upon the elder's birth - right . YET , however this art may be neglected by the powerful , it is still in greater danger from the ...
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... Each nobler aim repreft by long controul , Now finks at laft , or feebly mans the foul ; While low delights , fucceeding faft behind , In happier meannefs occupy the mind : As in thofe dooms , where Cæfars once bore fway , Defac'd ...
... Each nobler aim repreft by long controul , Now finks at laft , or feebly mans the foul ; While low delights , fucceeding faft behind , In happier meannefs occupy the mind : As in thofe dooms , where Cæfars once bore fway , Defac'd ...
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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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