 | 1854 - 778 pages
...one he'll ne'er come back." This must have been running in Goldsmith's head when he wrote : " Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long...this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back." II. Epigram on the feuds between Handel and Bononcini : " Strange ! all this difference should be,... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...Purdon, which showed that Goldsmith had lately been reading Pope's and Swift's Miscellanies t Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long...this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. * It is also said that on Kelly's first introduction to Johnson, after having sat a short time, he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 pages
...his works shall rise, While converts thank their poet in the skies. EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON.1 HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long...this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. 1 ' Edward Pardon : ' educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; but having wasted his patrimony, he enlisted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 pages
...to have been completed. ing of, on hearing that he had suddenly dropped dead in Smithneld :— Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long...this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. The memoir and translation, though advertised to form a volume, were not published together, but appeared... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...recover* d of the bite, The dog it was that died. EPITAPH. OR EDWAKD Pl'BDON.' 111 i'i. lies ix>or Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's...this world,— I don't think he'll wish to come back. EPILOGUE TO "THE SISTER." A COMEDY. Spoken by Mrt. Bvlkley. WHAT ! five long acts—and all to make... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 pages
...his works shall rise, While converts thank their poet in the skies. EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON.* HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long...such a damnable life in this world, I don't think he 'll wish to come back. STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC. AMIDST the clamour of exulting joys, Which... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 pages
...To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die. EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON. HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long...such a damnable life in this world — I don't think he 'll wish to come back. VERSES IN REPLY TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER. " This is a poem ! This is a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...rogues they lied ; The man reeover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. EPITAPH EDWARD PURDON. Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's haek ; He led sueh a damnable life in this world, I don't think he'll wish to eome baek.* [Purdon died... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 pages
...works shall rise, While converts thank their poet in the skies. EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON* HERE lies Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's...this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC. AMIDST the clamor of exulting joys, Which triumph forces from the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...may say, That had she liv'da twelvemonth moreShe had not died to-day. EPITAPH ON EDWARD PUBDON.* HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long...this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. • Educated at Trinity College, Dublin; but, bavin? waited his patrimony, he enlisted as a foot-soldier.... | |
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HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack ; He led such a damnable life in this world, — I don't think he'll wish to come back. 
