The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... poets and undertakers are sure of employment . While one provides the long cloak , black staff , and mourning coach ... poet and undertaker are ready to supply them ; these can find metaphorical tears and family escut- cheons at half an ...
... poets and undertakers are sure of employment . While one provides the long cloak , black staff , and mourning coach ... poet and undertaker are ready to supply them ; these can find metaphorical tears and family escut- cheons at half an ...
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... poet , whose trade is thus to make demigods and he- roes for a dinner . There is not in nature a more dis- mal figure than a man who sits down to premeditated flattery ; every stanza he writes tacitly reproaches the meanness of his ...
... poet , whose trade is thus to make demigods and he- roes for a dinner . There is not in nature a more dis- mal figure than a man who sits down to premeditated flattery ; every stanza he writes tacitly reproaches the meanness of his ...
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... poet perfectly innocent . On the Death of the Right Honourable *** Ye muses , pour the pitying tear For Pollio snatch'd away : O , had he liv'd another year ! He had not died to - day . O , were he born to bless mankind In virtuous ...
... poet perfectly innocent . On the Death of the Right Honourable *** Ye muses , pour the pitying tear For Pollio snatch'd away : O , had he liv'd another year ! He had not died to - day . O , were he born to bless mankind In virtuous ...
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... poet was reproached for wanting good - na- ture ; a third was accused of free - thinking ; and a fourth of having once been a player . Strange ! cried I , how unjust are mankind in the distribution of fame ; the ignorant among whom I ...
... poet was reproached for wanting good - na- ture ; a third was accused of free - thinking ; and a fourth of having once been a player . Strange ! cried I , how unjust are mankind in the distribution of fame ; the ignorant among whom I ...
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... poets to put it into verse , and priests to preach it in the pulpit . In order there- fore to free both those who praise , and those who are praised from a duty probably disagreeable to both , I would constitute professed flatterers ...
... poets to put it into verse , and priests to preach it in the pulpit . In order there- fore to free both those who praise , and those who are praised from a duty probably disagreeable to both , I would constitute professed flatterers ...
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