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" Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffic round the land ; From courts to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest,... "
Almack's: A Novel ... - Page 27
by Charles White - 1827
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The Wreath: A Collection of Poems from Celebrated English Authors

1821 - 282 pages
...to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till seeming blest they grow to what they seem. But while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise ; For...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; .They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. But while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise; For...
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Miscellaneous Selections and Original Pieces: In Prose and Verse ...

Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 pages
...describes the once flattering', vain, and happy character of the French. " They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem, " Till, seeming- blest, they grow to what they seem." He betrays so little effort to make us visionary by the usual and palpable fictions of his art...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...to camps, to cottages it strays, And all arc taught an avarice of praise; They please, are pleas'd, soul ; That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same; Great in seem. But while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise : For...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...to eamps, to eottages it strays, And all are taught an avariee of praise ; They please, are pleas'd, eek the seeond not to lose the first. Men, some to business, some to seem. But while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise : f...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...camps, to cottages, it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise : They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem ; Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. But while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise ; For...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. But while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise ; For...
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Almack's: A Novel ...

Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson, Charles White - 1826 - 366 pages
...THE FAMILY IN PORTLAND PLACE. " Here all are taught an avarice of praise, They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem, 'Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.'' GOLDSMITH. ON the morning after their arrival in town, the Earl of Norbury requested Louisa,...
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Almack's: A Novel, Volume 2

Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson - 1827 - 370 pages
...THE FAMILY IN PORTLAND PLACE. " Here all are taught an avarice of praise, They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem, 'Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.'' GOLDSMITH. ON the morning after their arrival in town, the Earl of Norbury requested Louisa,...
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Life in India: Or, The English at Calcutta, Volume 2

Mrs. Monkland - 1828 - 310 pages
...Calcutta, and go down speedily and easily with the northwest monsoon. CHAPTER III. Anxious to please, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they teem. GOLDSMITH. Miss Panton lived from the time her marriage was fixed in a continued fever of amusement,...
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