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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ... - Page 63
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1791
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to cambat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate; But...
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The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...eafe; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fty ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore...mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet his latter...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate; But on he moves to...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...first he flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return— and die at home at last. For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring Famine from the gate ;...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Who quits a world whereslrong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! l-'or u daug'rous deep ; N'o surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ;...
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Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ...

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly I For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to...
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Essays, Poems and Plays: With a Preface

Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...; "Who qnits a world where strong temptations try. And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep. Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rons deep; No snrly porter stands in gnilty state, To spnrn imploring famine from the gate ; Bnt...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...ease ; Who quite a world where strong temptation? try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly I For him no wretches, born to work and weep. Explore the mine, or tempt the clans' rous deep; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. I'or him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'raus deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from his gate: But...
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