The vicar of Wakefield [by O. Goldsmith]. 2 vols. [in 1].1792 |
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... answer , they are as Heaven made them , handfome enough , if they be good enough ; for handfome is , that handfome does . ' And then she would bid the girls hold up their heads ; who , to conceal nothing , were certainly very handfome ...
... answer , they are as Heaven made them , handfome enough , if they be good enough ; for handfome is , that handfome does . ' And then she would bid the girls hold up their heads ; who , to conceal nothing , were certainly very handfome ...
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... answered feveral very useful purposes . It admonished my wife of her duty to me , and my fidelity to her : it infpired her with a paffion for fame , and constantly put her in mind of her end . It was thus , perhaps , from hearing ...
... answered feveral very useful purposes . It admonished my wife of her duty to me , and my fidelity to her : it infpired her with a paffion for fame , and constantly put her in mind of her end . It was thus , perhaps , from hearing ...
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... , and I think , ' continued he , that I should be able to answer you . ' • Very well , ' Sir , ' cried the fquire , who immediately fmoaked him , and < ' winked on the rest of the company , to prepare 30 VICAR OF WAKEFIELD .
... , and I think , ' continued he , that I should be able to answer you . ' • Very well , ' Sir , ' cried the fquire , who immediately fmoaked him , and < ' winked on the rest of the company , to prepare 30 VICAR OF WAKEFIELD .
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... answered I < may end ? ' with a groan : ' for my part I don't much like it ; and I ' could have been better pleased with one that was poor and ' honeft than this fine gentleman with his fortune and infi- " : delity for depend on't , if ...
... answered I < may end ? ' with a groan : ' for my part I don't much like it ; and I ' could have been better pleased with one that was poor and ' honeft than this fine gentleman with his fortune and infi- " : delity for depend on't , if ...
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... answered each other from oppofite hedges , the familiar red - breaft came and pecked the crumbs from our hands , and every found feemed but the echo of tranquility . I never fit ' thus , ' fays Sophia , but I think of the two lovers ...
... answered each other from oppofite hedges , the familiar red - breaft came and pecked the crumbs from our hands , and every found feemed but the echo of tranquility . I never fit ' thus , ' fays Sophia , but I think of the two lovers ...
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Página 37 - I condemn ; Taught by that power that pities me, I learn to pity them. But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego, All earth-born cares are wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 60 - We all followed him several paces from the door, bawling after him, Good luck! good luck!
Página 147 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Página 90 - In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
Página 42 - 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 38 - 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 : " And whence, unhappy youth," he cried, " The sorrows of thy breast ? " From better habitations spurn'd, Reluctant dost thou rove?
Página 18 - ... the walls on the inside were nicely white-washed, and my daughters undertook to adorn them with pictures of their own designing. Though the same room served us for parlour and kitchen, that only made it the warmer.
Página 18 - Our little habitation was situated at the foot of a sloping hill, sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind, and a prattling river before ; on one side a meadow, on the other a green.
Página 125 - Upon asking how he had been taught the art of a cognoscente so very suddenly, he assured me that nothing was more easy. The whole secret consisted in a strict adherence to two rules: the one always to observe, that the picture might have been better if the painter had taken more pains ; and the other, to praise the works of Pietro Perugino. But...
Página 62 - no more silver than your saucepan." "And so," returned she, "we have parted with the colt, and have only got a gross of green spectacles, with copper rims and shagreen cases ! A murrain take such trumpery. The blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company better." " There, my dear," cried I, "you are wrong; he should not have known them at all.