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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith MB Author:Oliver Goldsmith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FROM THE ORATORIO OF THE CAPTIVITY. SONG. JL H E wretch condernn'd with life to part, Still, ftill on hope relics; And ev'ry pang that rends th... more »e heart, Bids expectation rife. Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And ftill, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. SONG.SONG. V-/ Memory ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys, recurring ever, And turning all the paft to pain ; Thou, like the world, the oppreft oppieffing, Thy fmiles increafe the wretch's woe ? And he who wants each other bleffing, In thee muft ever find a foe. THETHE CLOWN'S. REPLY. JOHN T R O T T was defired by two witty peers, To tell them the reafon why afles had ears ? " An't pleafe you," quoth John, " I'm not given " to letters, " Nor dare I pretend to know more than my bet- " ters, " Howe'er from this time I mail ne'er fee your " graces, " As I hope to be fav'd! without thinking on afles." Edinburgh, 1753. E PI- EDWARD PURDON. .ERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from mifery freed, Who long was a bookfeller's hack ; He led fuch a damnable life in this world,— I don't think he'll wifh to come back. This gentleman was educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; but having wafted his patrimony, he enlifted as a foot 1'oldier. Growing tired of that employment, h obtained his difcharge, and became a fcribbler in the newf- papers. He tranflated Voltaire's Henriade. E L E- ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX, MRS. MARY BLAIZE. VJOOD people all, with one accord, Lament for madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From thofe who fpoke her praife. The needy feldom pafs'd her door, And always found her kind; She freely lent to all the poor,— Who left ...« less