The Poetical Works ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 355 pages |
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... comedy , mistaking a squire's house for an inn . Obstacles rose between him and college . The oldest son , Henry ( the beloved brother of " The Traveller " ) , was there already ; and now Mr. Goldsmith , acting on a mistaken view of ...
... comedy , mistaking a squire's house for an inn . Obstacles rose between him and college . The oldest son , Henry ( the beloved brother of " The Traveller " ) , was there already ; and now Mr. Goldsmith , acting on a mistaken view of ...
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... literary journeyman : and the money was still sliding , like quicksilver , out of the hands of one who never could be taught what money is worth . In 1767 , his first comedy was submitted to Garrick 23 OLIVER GOLDSMITH .
... literary journeyman : and the money was still sliding , like quicksilver , out of the hands of one who never could be taught what money is worth . In 1767 , his first comedy was submitted to Garrick 23 OLIVER GOLDSMITH .
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... comedy , " The Good - natured Man , " at Colman's theatre , Covent Garden . Its success was no more than fair ; nor is the partial failure to be wondered at . He had designed to deviate from the sentimental school of comedy , then ...
... comedy , " The Good - natured Man , " at Colman's theatre , Covent Garden . Its success was no more than fair ; nor is the partial failure to be wondered at . He had designed to deviate from the sentimental school of comedy , then ...
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... comedy , working at it , as recently on the descriptive poem , chiefly in the country , in lodgings on the Edgware Road . While he was thus imagining , alternately , scenes of pathos and of broad fun , the real gloom was gathering round ...
... comedy , working at it , as recently on the descriptive poem , chiefly in the country , in lodgings on the Edgware Road . While he was thus imagining , alternately , scenes of pathos and of broad fun , the real gloom was gathering round ...
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... Comedy wonders at being so fine ; Like a tragedy queen he has dizened her out , Or rather like Tragedy giving a rout . His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings , that Folly grows proud ; And coxcombs ...
... Comedy wonders at being so fine ; Like a tragedy queen he has dizened her out , Or rather like Tragedy giving a rout . His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings , that Folly grows proud ; And coxcombs ...
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Ballads beauty blessings blest bliss bound in cloth breast BULKLEY Burke CHALDEAN CHARLES BENNETT CHARLES GRIFFIN charms cheer CHORUS cloth and gold cloth gilt elegant comedy Covent Garden cried David Garrick dear Edited EDMUND BURKE EPILOGUE essays eyes fame Fcap fear flies folly handsomely bound heart Heaven honour Illustrated Johnson Kilkenny labour land Lord luxury Memoir and Notes mind mirth MISS CATLEY never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain Pasty plain pleasure poem Poetical Poets poor praise pride rage raptures Recitative Reynolds rise ROBERT BELL round Royal 8vo scene SECOND PRIEST SECOND PROPHET sigh sinks sizar skies smiling SONG sorrow soul spread spurn Stoops to Conquer supplies swain sweet SWEET Auburn thee thine thou thoughts toil Toned Paper triumph turn Twas Ven'son village wealth weep Whitefoord WILLIAM SPALDING WOMAN wretch yonder youth