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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... "
The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books - Page 437
by John Forster - 1848 - 704 pages
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...troubles e'er annoy ! Sure, these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts ? — Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor, houseless, shivering 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...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shiv'ring female lies. She once, perhaps, in village-plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest; Her...the thorn, Now lost to all ; her friends, her virtue tied, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower,...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts ?—Ah ! turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shiv'ring female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty...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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts — Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shiv'ring female lies. • She once, perhaps, in village plenty...might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorp, Ntiw lost to all ; her friends ; her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...Are these thy serious thoughts; Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor ho useless shiv'ring female liei. She, once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept...distrest; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet us the primrose peeps beneath the thorn ; Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue Sol, Near her betrayer's...
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Celia in Search of a Husband, Volume 1

Medora Gordon Byron - 1809 - 342 pages
...like The good old patriarch upon record, Hold tbe fleet an-el fast, untU be bless tiee,'" CHAP. XIII, She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept...distrest ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Jvreet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. GOLDSMITH. Alas! no more that joyous morn appears That...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...plenty blest, las wept at talcs of innocence distrest ; :Ier modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet ron rise, And Carmel's flow'r* top perfumes the skies I Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert che bctraver's door she la\ > her head ; \nd pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the show'r, With heavy...
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Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...joy ! {eyes Are i lii'M- thy serious thoughts ? — Ah, turn thine Where tbe poor houseless shiv'ring female lies : She, once perhaps, in village plenty...fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, An-!, pincli'd with cold, and shrinking from tbe sbow'r, With heavy heart deplores that luckless how,...
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Essays, Poems and Plays: With a Preface

Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...tnrn thine eyes Where the poor honseless shiv'ring female lies. She once, perhaps, in village-plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest ; Her...beneath the thorn. Now lost to all, her friends, her virtne fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...[eyes Are these thy serious thoughts ? — Ah, turn thine Where the poor houseless shiv'ring ft male lies : She, once perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distresl ; Her modest looks the cottage Blight adurn, Sweet as the primrose pet ps beneath the thorn...
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