The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes, Volumen2Thomas Tegg, 1835 |
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... wife , as she did her wedding - gown , not for a fine glossy surface , but for such qualities as would wear well . To do her justice , she was a good - natured notable woman ; and , as for breeding , there were few country ladies who ...
... wife , as she did her wedding - gown , not for a fine glossy surface , but for such qualities as would wear well . To do her justice , she was a good - natured notable woman ; and , as for breeding , there were few country ladies who ...
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... wife always insisted , that as they were the same flesh and blood , they should sit with us at the same table . So ... wife's custards plundered by the cats or the children . The Squire would sometimes fall asleep in the most pathetic ...
... wife always insisted , that as they were the same flesh and blood , they should sit with us at the same table . So ... wife's custards plundered by the cats or the children . The Squire would sometimes fall asleep in the most pathetic ...
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... wife , who during her pregnancy had been reading romances , insisted upon her being called Olivia . In less than another year we had another daughter , and now I was determined that Grizzel should be her name ; but a rich relation ...
... wife , who during her pregnancy had been reading romances , insisted upon her being called Olivia . In less than another year we had another daughter , and now I was determined that Grizzel should be her name ; but a rich relation ...
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... wife's management ; as to the spiritual , I took them entirely under my own direction . The profits of my living , which amounted to but thirty - five pounds a - year , I made over to the orphans and widows of the clergy of our diocese ...
... wife's management ; as to the spiritual , I took them entirely under my own direction . The profits of my living , which amounted to but thirty - five pounds a - year , I made over to the orphans and widows of the clergy of our diocese ...
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... wife's tomb that she was the only wife of William Whiston , so I wrote a similar epitaph for my wife , though still living , in which I extolled her prudence , economy , and obedience till death ; and having got it copied fair , with an ...
... wife's tomb that she was the only wife of William Whiston , so I wrote a similar epitaph for my wife , though still living , in which I extolled her prudence , economy , and obedience till death ; and having got it copied fair , with an ...
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acquainted admired Æneid amusement ancient appearance arms Asem beauty better Broom of Cowdenknows Burchell called character child comedy continued cried my wife daughter David Rizzio dear Demetrius Phalereus distress English entertainment ESSAY expression fancy father Flamborough fond fortune friendship gave genius gentleman girls give going happy heart Heaven honour Iliad imitation Jenkinson ladies live Livy look madam Manetho manner marriage metaphors mind Miss Wilmot morning Moses nature neighbour never night observed Olivia once opinion Ovid passion perceive Pergolese pleased pleasure poet poetry poor prison Pylos quæ Quintilian racter rapture replied resolved rest returned scarcely seemed shew simile Sir William song soon Sophia spondees Squire sure taste tell thee Thespis thing Thornhill thou thought Tibullus town VICAR OF WAKEFIELD Virgil virtue whole words wretched young
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Página 272 - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 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...
Página 257 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 257 - 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, When he himself might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin?
Página 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 :
Página 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...
Página 69 - As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.