 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where...that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth, and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he trinmph'd , is forgot. Near yonder thorn , that lifts its head on high ,...eye , Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspir'd, Where grey-beard mirth , and smiling toil retir'd, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...But past is all his fame : the very spot Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot. Near yonder thom ing so lately wove ; Each simple flower, which she...mildly blue. Vo more shall violets linger in the dell, witB looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace... | |
 | Henry Charlton Beck - History - 1983 - 368 pages
...and held them, saying over and over: "Old friends." ROADS UNDER WATER "Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round" OLIVER GOLDSMITH THIS GALLIVANTING WITH A GHOST had been only an interlude. Actually I was still at... | |
 | Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - Literary Collections - 1985 - 280 pages
...(the inn parlor): But past is all his fame. The very spot, Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where...caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nutbrpwn draughts inspired, Where greybeard mirth and smiling toil retired. (217-22) I have italicized... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...can enjoy themselves so well as in a capital tavern. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...aulhor. editor. Voices from Women's Liberation, "The Bar as Microcosm" (ed. by Leslie B. Tanner, 1970). 6 f outer space. BERNARD COOPER (b. 1 936), US physicist. Gettysburg Review (Summer 1989; repr. in H OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-74), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. The Deserted Village. 7 There is... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...paints its object, and paints it distinctly.' The same may be said with equal justice of the following : Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where...eye; Low lies that house, where nut-brown draughts inspir'd, Where grey-beard mirth, and smiling toil retir'd . . . This fine poetical inventory of the... | |
 | Lawrence J. Taylor - Religion - 1995 - 308 pages
...Thus the author sounds the note of universal nostalgia for a way of life lost in the face of progress: Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where...once the sign-post caught the passing eye. Low lies the house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Where village statesmen talked with looks profound. And... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Barbarism 1 And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution. Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, (1728-1774) 4 There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well... | |
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Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where gray-beard mirth, and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound And news much older than their ale went round. 
