CONTENTS
Oliver Goldsmith
PAGE
The Traveller
1
The Deserted Village
29
The Hermit
57
The Captivity
67
The Haunch of Venison
85
Retaliation
91
The Double Transformation
99
The Gift to Iris
104
The Logicians Refuted
105
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
108
Threnodia Augustalis
110
A New Simile
122
On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind by Lightning
125
Stanzas on Woman
126
Translation from ScarrÒn
126
Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec
127
Epitaph on Edward Purdon
128
Translation of a South American Ode
128
Epitaph on Thomas Parnell
129
Description of an Author’s Bed-chamber
130
Song, from the Comedy of “She Stoops to Conquer”
131
Answer to an Invitation to Dinner
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133
Song, intended to have been sung in “She Stoops to Conquer”
135
From the Latin of Vida
135
An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize
136
Answer to an Invitation to pass the Christmas at Barton
138
On Seeing a Lady Perform a Certain Character
141
Birds
142
Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius
143
Prologue to “Zobeide”
144
Epilogue to “The Sister”
146
Epilogue intended for “She Stoops to Conquer”
148
Another Intended Epilogue
153
Epilogue to “She Stoops to Conquer”
155
Epilogue to “The Good-natured Man”
157
On the Death of the Right Hon. ——
159
Epilogue Written for Mr. Charles Lee Lewes
163
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