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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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AUSTIN DOBSON.

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Oliver Goldsmith·1728–1774
aling, _September_, 1906. CONTENTS IntroductionChronology of Goldsmith’s Life and Poems POEMSDescriptive PoemsThe Traveller; or, A Prospect of SocietyThe Deserted VillageLyrical and Miscellaneous PiecesPrologue of LaberiusOn a Beautiful Youth struck Blind with LightningThe Gift. To Iris, in Bow StreetThe Logicians RefutedA SonnetStanzas on the Taking of QuebecAn Elegy on Mrs. Mary BlaizeDescription of an Author’s BedchamberOn seeing Mrs. *** perform in the Character of ****On the Death of the Right Hon.***An Epigram. Addressed to the Gentlemen reflected on in ‘The Rosciad’, a Poem, by the AuthorTo G. C. and R. L.Translation of a South American OdeThe Double Transformation. A TaleA New Simile, in the Manner of SwiftEdwin and AngelinaElegy on the Death of a Mad DogSong (‘When Lovely Woman,’ etc.)Epilogue to _The Good Natur’d Man_Epilogue to _The Sister_Prologue to _Zobeide_Threnodia Augustalis: Sacred to the Memory of Her Late Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of WalesSong (‘Let school-masters,’ etc.)Epilogue to _She Stoops to Conquer_RetaliationSong (‘Ah, me! when shall I marry me?’)Translation (‘Chaste are their instincts’)The Haunch of VenisonEpitaph on Thomas ParnellThe Clown’s ReplyEpitaph on Edward PurdonEpilogue for Lee LewesEpilogue written for _She Stoops to Conquer_ (1)Epilogue written for _She Stoops to Conquer_ (2)The Captivity. An OratorioVerses in Reply to an Invitation to DinnerLetter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. BunburyVida’s Game of Chess NOTESIntroduction to the NotesEditions of the PoemsThe TravellerThe Deserted VillagePrologue of LaberiusOn a Beautiful Youth struck Blind with LightningThe GiftThe Logicians RefutedA SonnetStanzas on the Taking of QuebecAn Elegy on Mrs. Mary BlaizeDescription of an Author’s BedchamberOn seeing Mrs. *** perform in the Character of ****On the Death of the Right Hon. ***An EpigramTo G. C. and R. L.Translation of a South American OdeThe Double TransformationA New SimileEdwin and AngelinaElegy on the Death of a Mad DogSong (from _The Vicar of Wakefield_)Epilogue (_The Good Natur’d Man_)Epilogue (_The Sister_)Prologue (_Zobeide_)Threnodia AugustalisSong (from _She Stoops to Conquer_)Epilogue (_She Stoops to Conquer_)RetaliationSong intended for _She Stoops to Conquer_TranslationThe Haunch of VenisonEpitaph on Thomas ParnellThe Clown’s ReplyEpitaph on Edward PurdonEpilogue for Lee Lewes’s BenefitEpilogue (_She Stoops to Conquer_) (1)Epilogue (_She Stoops to Conquer_) (2)The CaptivityVerses in Reply to an Invitation to DinnerLetter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. BunburyVida’s Game of Chess APPENDIXESPortraits of GoldsmithDescriptions of Newell’s Views of Lissoy, etc.The Epithet ‘Sentimental’Fragments of Translations, etc., by GoldsmithGoldsmith on Poetry under Anne and George the FirstCriticisms from Goldsmith’s _Beauties of English Poesy_