The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volume 2Thomas Tegg, 1835 |
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... seemed to increase their passion . We were generally awaked in the morning by music , and on fine days rode a - hunting . The hours between breakfast and dinner the ladies devoted to dress and study : they usually read a page THE VICAR ...
... seemed to increase their passion . We were generally awaked in the morning by music , and on fine days rode a - hunting . The hours between breakfast and dinner the ladies devoted to dress and study : they usually read a page THE VICAR ...
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... seemed earnestly to desire it . During the preparations for the wedding , I need not describe the busy importance of my wife , nor the sly looks of my daughters : in fact , my attention was fixed on another object , —the completing a ...
... seemed earnestly to desire it . During the preparations for the wedding , I need not describe the busy importance of my wife , nor the sly looks of my daughters : in fact , my attention was fixed on another object , —the completing a ...
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... seemed before sufficiently inclined to break off the match , was , by this blow , soon determined one virtue he had in perfection , which was prudence , too often the only one that is left us at seventy- two . CHAPTER III . A MIGRATION ...
... seemed before sufficiently inclined to break off the match , was , by this blow , soon determined one virtue he had in perfection , which was prudence , too often the only one that is left us at seventy- two . CHAPTER III . A MIGRATION ...
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... seemed to brighten with the expectation of an approaching triumph : nor was my wife less pleased and confident of their allurements and virtue . While our thoughts were thus employed , the hostess entered the room to inform her husband ...
... seemed to brighten with the expectation of an approaching triumph : nor was my wife less pleased and confident of their allurements and virtue . While our thoughts were thus employed , the hostess entered the room to inform her husband ...
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... seemed to be about thirty , dressed in clothes that once were laced . His person was well formed , and his face marked with the lines of thinking . He had something short and dry in his address , and seemed not to understand ceremony ...
... seemed to be about thirty , dressed in clothes that once were laced . His person was well formed , and his face marked with the lines of thinking . He had something short and dry in his address , and seemed not to understand ceremony ...
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Page 257 - s the respect That makes calamity of so long life ; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time. • The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes...
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Page 32 - The crackling faggot flies. But nothing could a charm impart To soothe the stranger's woe; For grief was heavy at his heart, And tears began to flow. His rising cares the Hermit spied, With answering care opprest :
Page 32 - Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay: And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. "And what is friendship...
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Page 263 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 34 - Twas Edwin's self that pressed ! "Turn, Angelina, ever- dear. My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee. "Thus let me hold thee to my heart; And every care resign : And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine ? " No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true, The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Page 34 - I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay. "And there, forlorn, despairing, hid, I'll lay me down and die; Twas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.