The Poems and PlaysMethuen, 1905 - 183 pages |
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... schools in Ireland , he entered Trinity College , Dublin , as a sizar in 1744. Impatient of discipline , he was in ... school at Peck- ham kept by a dissenting minister . From childhood Goldsmith had shown a marked taste for literature ...
... schools in Ireland , he entered Trinity College , Dublin , as a sizar in 1744. Impatient of discipline , he was in ... school at Peck- ham kept by a dissenting minister . From childhood Goldsmith had shown a marked taste for literature ...
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... school - taught pride dissemble all it can , These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he , whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind . Ye glitt'ring towns , with wealth and splendour crown'd , Ye fields ...
... school - taught pride dissemble all it can , These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he , whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind . Ye glitt'ring towns , with wealth and splendour crown'd , Ye fields ...
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... school ; The watchdog's voice that bay'd the whisp'ring wind , And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade , And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made . But now the sounds of ...
... school ; The watchdog's voice that bay'd the whisp'ring wind , And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade , And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made . But now the sounds of ...
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... school ; A man severe he was , and stern to view ; I knew him well , and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd , with counterfeited glee , At ...
... school ; A man severe he was , and stern to view ; I knew him well , and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd , with counterfeited glee , At ...
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... school would be his death . When he comes to be a little stronger , who knows what a year or two's Latin may do for him ? 51 Anybody that HARD . Latin for him ! A cat and a fiddle ! No , no ; the ale- house and the stable are the only ...
... school would be his death . When he comes to be a little stronger , who knows what a year or two's Latin may do for him ? 51 Anybody that HARD . Latin for him ! A cat and a fiddle ! No , no ; the ale- house and the stable are the only ...
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