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Common terms and phrasesAlma artsul aster Atrides BAUCIS and PHILEMON beauty blest blifs breast Cadenus Carvel charms cry'd Cupid dame dear Death delight Dick divine e'er earth eternal Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fancy fate flame flow'r Folly fond fool foul Friendship give goddess grace grave grief happy heart Heav'n honour hope hour immortal light lise Lise's Lorenzo lov'd Lucretius maid mind mortal muse nature Nature's ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain Palemon Pallas passion peace plac'd pleas'd pleasure poets Poltis poor pow'r praife pride quoth rage sacred scene sear seel seet sense shade sields sigh sight sigure sine sire sirst smile soft song soul strain suture swains sweet t'other tell thee theme thine things thou thought thro tir'd tongue Topaz trembler Twas Vanessa virtue wisdom wise youth Popular passagesPage 109 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same. Page 97 - We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. Page 132 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heav'n. Page 108 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Page 108 - Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live, For ever on the brink of being born.' All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least, their own ; their future selves applaud How excellent that life they ne'er will lead. Page 146 - I fed on the smiles of my dear ? They tell me, my favourite maid, The pride of that valley, is flown ; Alas ! where with her I have stray'd I could wander with pleasure, alone. Page 238 - To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Page 129 - Can gold gain friendship ? Impudence of hope ! As well mere man an angel might beget. Love, and love only, is the loan for love. Lorenzo ! pride repress ; nor hope to find A friend, but what has found a friend in thee. All like the purchase ; few the price will pay ; And this makes friends such miracles below. Page 80 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd ; or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven... Page 133 - Through nature's wreck, through vanquisht agonies, (Like the stars struggling through this midnight gloom) What gleams of joy ? what more than human peace ? Where, the frail mortal ? the poor abject worm ? No, not in death, the Mortal to be found. His conduct is a legacy for All. Richer than Mammon's for his single heir. His comforters he comforts ; Great in ruin, With unreluctant grandeur, gives, not yields His soul sublime ; and closes with his fate. References from web pagesSamuel Johnson. London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of ... The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith / Goldsmith ... Goldsmith on Burke and Gray THE POET AND THE HACK: GOLDSMITH’S CAREER AS A PROFESSIONAL WRITER* Goldsmith, Oliver |; Beauties of English Poesy, The English Literature | David Brass Rare Books Bibliographic information
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