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Every pang that rends the heart. - The Captivity [Christ] Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. - The Captivity (act I) [Adversity] Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. - The Captivity (act II, sc. 1) [Hope] The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise. - The Captivity--Song [Hope] "The Republic of Letters" is a very common expression among the Europeans. - The Citizen of the World (20) [Authorship] Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly--should still be new. - The Citizen of the World (letter LXXII) [Books] In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. - The Citizen of the World (letter LXXII) [Books] In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. - The Citizen of the World (letter LXXV) [Reading] The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. - The Citizen of the World (letter LXXXIII) [Reading] By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain. - The Citizen of the World (no. 3) [Memory] John Trott was desired by two witty peers To tell them the reason why asses had ears. "An't please you," quoth John, "I'm not given to letters; Nor dare I pretend to know more than my betters: Howe'er, from this time I shall ne'er see your graces, As I hope to be saved! without thinking on asses." - The Clown's Reply [Asses] Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. - The Deserted Village, lines actually added to Goldsmith's work by Samuel Johnson [Business] All the bloomy flush of life is fled. - The Deserted Village (128) [Life] Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. - The Deserted Village (l. 110) [Resignation] While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. - The Deserted Village (l. 110) [Heaven] The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind: There all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. - The Deserted Village (l. 121) [Night] The hawthorn-brush, with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers made! - The Deserted Village (l. 13) [Hawthorn] His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast. - The Deserted Village (l. 149) [Philanthropy] The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay; Sat by his fire, and talked the night away, Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. - The Deserted Village (l. 155) [Soldiers] Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. - The Deserted Village (l. 161) [Philanthropy] Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side. - The Deserted Village (l. 163) [Virtue] But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. - The Deserted Village (l. 165) [Preaching] He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. - The Deserted Village (l. 166) [Sympathy] Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. - The Deserted Village (l. 170) [Example] At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. - The Deserted Village (l. 177) [Prayer] Displaying page 9 of 13 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [9] 10 11 12 13
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