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" Whose daily bon mots half a column might fill ; A Scotchman, from pride and from prejudice free ; A scholar, yet surely no pedant was he. "
The Monthly Magazine - Page 392
1810
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The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the Author

Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT. HERE Whitefoord reclines, and, deny it who can, Though he merrily lived, he is now a grave man: Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun! Who relish'da joke, and rejoiced in a pun; Whose temper was generous, open, sincere; A stranger to flatt'ry,...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ..., Volume 19

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...mirthful drollery. Funny, adj. common in speech. Here Whitefoord reclines, end deny it who can, Though he merrily liv*d, he is now a grave man : Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and /мя, Who relish'da joke, ana rejoic'd in a pun. Goldanith. Retaliation. FUTÍ E. FUN. 372 FUN FUND...
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The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...trumpet, and only took snuff.* POSTSCRIPT. 3 HERE Whitefoord reclines, and deny it who can, Though he merrily liv'd, he is now a grave man : Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! Who relish'da joke, and rejoic'd in a pun ; Whose temper was generous, open, sincere; A stranger to flatt'ry,...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...trumpet, and only took snuff.2 POSTSCRIPT.3 HERE Whitcfoord reclines, and deny it who can, Though 1m merrily liv'd, he is now a grave man : Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! Who relish'da joke, and rejoic'd in a pun ; Whose temper was generous, open, sincere; A stranger to flatt'ry,...
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The Poetical Works of Goldsmith, Collins, and T. Warton: With Lives ...

Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 pages
...of the late Dr Goldsmith. HERE Whitefoord reclines ; and, deny it who can, Though he merrily lived, he is now a grave man ; Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! Who relish'da joke, and rejoiced in a pun ;3 150 1 ' Trumpet : ' Sir Joshua Reynolds was so remarkably...
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Poems, Plays and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 pages
...of the late Dr. Goldsmith. HERE Whitefoord reclines, and, deny it who can, Though he merrily lived, he is now a grave man : | Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! Who relish'da joke, and rejoiced in a pun ; Whose temper was generous, open, sincere ; A stranger to flattery,...
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A Book for the Times: Lucy Boston; Or, Woman's Rights and Spiritualism ...

Fred Folio - 1855 - 442 pages
...of her husband to the "good cause." They saw, at a glance, what sort of stuff he was made of: — " Rare compound of oddity, frolic and fun ! Who relished a joke, and rejoiced in a pun Whose temper was generous, open, sincere ; A stranger to flatt'ry, a stranger to...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life

Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...his trumpet, and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT." HERE Whitefoord" reclines, and deny it who can, Though he merrily liv'd, he is now a grave man : Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun — Who relish'da joke, and rejoic'd in a pun ; Whose temper was generous, open, sincere — A stranger to...
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Biographical sketch. Poetical extracts. Miscellaneous essays. From The bee ...

Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...Goldsmith. HERE Whitefoord reclines, and deny it who can, Though he merrily lived, he is now a grave5 man ; Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! Who relished a joke, and rejoiced in a pun ; 1 Vide p. 212. 2 Vide p. 212. 3 Sir Joshua Reynolds was so remarkably deaf as to...
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Recollections of the British institution, for promoting the fine arts in the ...

Thomas Smith (of Marylebone.) - 1860 - 256 pages
...insert it in the 5th Edition. Here Whitefoord reclines, and deny it who can, Though he merrily lived, he is now a grave man, Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! Who relish'da joke, and rejoiced in a pun. Whose temper was gen'rous, open, sincere ; A stranger to flatt'ry,...
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