Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . nil p- OLIVER GOI-DSMITH. <5k Vs ^^ ^^ (. 1? Ov- •4^p 1724- 1774- f 9 Goldsmith is always delightful : and his satire is harmless as -^-^summer lightning. He was not the man to hurt even a wasp, much ^^ ^less a fly. His playfulness is graceful. We regret he did notsketch the intrusiveness and servility of lioswell. STANZAS OX WOMAN. From Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. xxiv. When lovely woman stoops to folly,And finds too late that men betray, What c
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . nil p- OLIVER GOI-DSMITH. <5k Vs ^^ ^^ (. 1? Ov- •4^p 1724- 1774- f 9 Goldsmith is always delightful : and his satire is harmless as -^-^summer lightning. He was not the man to hurt even a wasp, much ^^ ^less a fly. His playfulness is graceful. We regret he did notsketch the intrusiveness and servility of lioswell. STANZAS OX WOMAN. From Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. xxiv. When lovely woman stoops to folly,And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy,What art can wash her guilt away ? Ihe only art her guilt to cover,To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her wring his bosom, is—to die. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL ElISTLE TlJ CLAKE. Thanks, my Lord, for your venison, for finer or fatterNever ranged in a forest, or smoked in a platter :The haunch was a picture for painters to study—The fat was so white, and the lean was so my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regrettingTo spoil such a delicate pictiu-c
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