Goldsmith's Vicar of WakefieldD. C. Heath & Company, 1898 - 264 páginas |
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... cheerful , shiftless fashion ; and if , look- ing back , we sometimes wonder whence and how he got his money , we are perhaps even more surprised to read of the facility with which it was always spent . Eighteen months of desultory ...
... cheerful , shiftless fashion ; and if , look- ing back , we sometimes wonder whence and how he got his money , we are perhaps even more surprised to read of the facility with which it was always spent . Eighteen months of desultory ...
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... cheerfulness on days of labour , but ob- Io served festivals as intervals of idleness and pleasure . They kept up ... cheerfully down ; and what the conversation wanted in wit was made up in 20 laughter . Our little habitation was ...
... cheerfulness on days of labour , but ob- Io served festivals as intervals of idleness and pleasure . They kept up ... cheerfully down ; and what the conversation wanted in wit was made up in 20 laughter . Our little habitation was ...
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... cheerful air , 5 they gave us a favourite song of Dryden's . Mr. Thorn- hill seemed highly delighted with their performance and choice , and then took up the guitar himself . He played but very indifferently ; however , my eldest ...
... cheerful air , 5 they gave us a favourite song of Dryden's . Mr. Thorn- hill seemed highly delighted with their performance and choice , and then took up the guitar himself . He played but very indifferently ; however , my eldest ...
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... temperate repast , our cloth spread upon the hay , while Mr. Burchell gave cheerfulness to the feast . To heighten our satisfaction , two blackbirds 20 answered each other from opposite hedges , the familiar redbreast 41.
... temperate repast , our cloth spread upon the hay , while Mr. Burchell gave cheerfulness to the feast . To heighten our satisfaction , two blackbirds 20 answered each other from opposite hedges , the familiar redbreast 41.
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... cheerful and serene . " " Yes , " cried she , " I know that ; but I mean we should go there in as proper a manner as possible ; 10 not altogether like the scrubs about us . " " You are quite right , my dear , " returned I , " and I was ...
... cheerful and serene . " " Yes , " cried she , " I know that ; but I mean we should go there in as proper a manner as possible ; 10 not altogether like the scrubs about us . " " You are quite right , my dear , " returned I , " and I was ...
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amusing appeared Balliol College Berosus Burchell called Catskin CHAPTER character charm cheerful child comfort continued cried my wife daugh daughter dear eldest English Flamborough fortune friendship gentleman girls give going Goldsmith guilt happy heart Heaven HIRAM CORSON honest honour hope horse Jenkinson Johnson knew laugh letter live Livy London look madam Manetho manner married miseries Miss Wilmot morning Moses musical glasses neighbour ness never night observed Ocellus Lucanus Oliver Goldsmith Olivia once pain papa passion Patient Grissel perceived person pleased pleasure poor pounds present prison promise received replied resolved rest returned scarce seemed sister soon Sophia Squire Stoops to Conquer story stranger sure tell thee things Thornhill's thou tion town Traveller turn Vicar of Wakefield virtue WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON William Whiston wretched write ΙΟ
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Página 260 - I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return,...
Página 42 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
Página 103 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. 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.
Página 47 - Twas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.
Página 45 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Página 20 - 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 72 - I have brought back no money," cried Moses again; "I have laid it all out in a bargain, and here it is," pulling out a bundle from his breast ; " here they are — a gross of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases.
Página 43 - Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Página xxxviii - We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo ; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
Página 73 - A fig for the silver rims," cried my wife in a passion; "I dare swear they won't sell - for above half the money, at the rate of broken silver, five shillings an ounce." " You need be under no uneasiness," cried I, "about selling the rims; for they are not worth sixpence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over." "What!" cried my wife, "not silver, the rims not silver!" "No," cried I, "no more silver than your saucepan.