The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2Oliver Goldsmith James Williams, 1771 - English poetry |
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Page 109
... fool , And scarce in human wisdom to do more . All promise is poor dilatory man , And that thro ' ev'ry stage . when young , indeed , In full content , we , fometimes , nobly rest , Unanxious for ourselves ; and only with , As duteous ...
... fool , And scarce in human wisdom to do more . All promise is poor dilatory man , And that thro ' ev'ry stage . when young , indeed , In full content , we , fometimes , nobly rest , Unanxious for ourselves ; and only with , As duteous ...
Page 128
... fool by Wisdom's is outdone . Wifdem , tho ' richer than Peruvian mines , And fweeter than the fweet ambrofial hive , What is the , but the means of Happiness ? That unobtain'd , than Folly more a fool ; A melancholy fool , without her ...
... fool by Wisdom's is outdone . Wifdem , tho ' richer than Peruvian mines , And fweeter than the fweet ambrofial hive , What is the , but the means of Happiness ? That unobtain'd , than Folly more a fool ; A melancholy fool , without her ...
Page 139
... fools . Satire ! had I thy Dorfet's force divine , A knave , or fool , fhould perish in each line ; Tho ' , for the first , all Westminster should plead , And , for the laft , all Gretham intercede . Begin . Who first the catalogue ...
... fools . Satire ! had I thy Dorfet's force divine , A knave , or fool , fhould perish in each line ; Tho ' , for the first , all Westminster should plead , And , for the laft , all Gretham intercede . Begin . Who first the catalogue ...
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