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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Elphin
County Roscommon
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Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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