...cemented society, we were taught to consider all the evils of mankind as our own. He wound us up to be mere machines of pity and rendered us incapable of...impulse made either by real or fictitious distress." However conceived, we can be thankful for the wonderful grace and beauty of the poem and for the intuitive...

...happened at Ardagh). The youthful experience of the man in black comes very near to Goldsmith's own : We were perfectly instructed in the art of giving...thousands before we were taught the more necessary qualification of getting a farthing. Nash, the same who " erected the city of Bath into a province...

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