 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...loyalty, and faithful love. And thou. sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame,...shame in crowds, my solitary pride. Thou source of all iny bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so ; Thou guide, by which... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...loyalty, and faithful love. And thon, sweet I'oetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest famr ; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried. My slumi!; in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit, in these degenerate times of...first, and keep'st me so ; Thou guide, by which the noble arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well ! Farewell ; and oh ! where'er thy voice... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...propertied social order) : And thou, sweet Poesy, thou loveliest Maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame,...for honest fame. Dear charming nymph, neglected and denied, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride. Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...Drugs One man's poison is another man's drug. Father Ronald Knox (1888-1957) British clergyman, writer Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe. That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...ALLEN GINSBERG (b. 1926), US poet. Quoted in: Barry Miles. Ginsberg; Л Biography, ch. 16 (1989). It . 9 If you have embraced OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-74), Anglo-Irish author, poel, playwright. The Descried Village, referring specifically... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...pathetic leave of her. 'And thou sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame,...keep'st me so ; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excell, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well. Farewell, and O where'er thy voice be tried, On... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...loyalty and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame. To catch the heart or strike for honest fame; 410 Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...day. 4160 The Deserted Village In all the silent manliness of grief. 4141 4161 The Deserted Village sy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' 4162 'Edwin and Angelinu. or the Hermit' Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - History - 2000 - 358 pages
...probity and national virtue. It offers the poet inspiration and reduces him to vocational distress ("Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, / That found'st me poor at first, and keeps't me so" lines 413-14). The "woe" mentioned here is no doubt meant to indicate both the poet's enhanced sensitivity... | |
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And steady loyalty and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and... 
