 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pàgines
...torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ! Sure these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts ? Ah ! turn thine eyes...adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn ; Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,* And pinch'd... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pàgines
...annoy ! Sure these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts ? Ah, turn thine eye* Where the poor houseless shivering female lies. «...village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distress'd ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pàgines
...aanoy ! Sure these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts ? — Ah ! turn *hine eyes Where the poor houseless shivering female lies : She once, perhaps, in village plenty blessed. Has wept ut tales of ianocence distressed ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 pàgines
...torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ! Sure these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts? — Ah, turn thine...adorn. Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn : Mow lost to all — her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pàgines
...these no troubles e'er annoy ; Sure these denote one universal joy ? 1 48 GOLDSMITH'S POETICAL WORKS. Are these thy serious thoughts ? — Ah ! turn thine...female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty bless'd, Has wept at tales of innocence distress'd — Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pàgines
...torches glare; Sure scenes like these no troubles ere annoy ! Sure these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts — Ah, turn thine...adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn ; Now lost to all ; her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And pinch'd... | |
 | Gregory A. Schirmer - 1998 - 460 pàgines
...country girl forced to the city for economic reasons, and there inevitably falling into evil ways: . . . Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shivering...adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head.16 As Goldsmith... | |
 | Brian Maidment - 2001 - 212 pàgines
...section of the poem which comprises a short narrative of sexual ruin in the city: Ah! turn thine eye Where the poor Houseless shivering female lies. She...adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lies her head, And pinch'd... | |
 | John Thelwall - 2001 - 464 pàgines
...Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, line 330: the lines describe a once-virtuous cottage girl, whose "modest looks the cottage might adorn, / Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn," who is now a homeless, betrayed prostitute in the city. 227. The most popular work of the poet William... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pàgines
...torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy! Sure these denote one universal joy! Are these thy serious thoughts? — Ah, turn thine...houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in a village plenty blessed, Has wept at tales of innocence distressed; Her modest looks the cottage might... | |
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Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ! Sure these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts ? — Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor... 
