Goldsmith's Vicar of WakefieldD. C. Heath & Company, 1898 - 264 páginas |
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... came to nothing . The next move was in the direction of America , where , Goldsmith had learned , fortunes were to be made by those who had little hopes of making them at home . So one fine morning he set out with viii INTRODUCTION .
... came to nothing . The next move was in the direction of America , where , Goldsmith had learned , fortunes were to be made by those who had little hopes of making them at home . So one fine morning he set out with viii INTRODUCTION .
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... fortune at the gaming - table ; and by and bye , ill and contrite , he found his way back to his uncle's home . Not even now did Mr. Contarine's good - nature give out , and as Goldsmith himself seems at last to have learned some- thing ...
... fortune at the gaming - table ; and by and bye , ill and contrite , he found his way back to his uncle's home . Not even now did Mr. Contarine's good - nature give out , and as Goldsmith himself seems at last to have learned some- thing ...
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... fortune and misfortune , good and evil , life and death , and attains to the possession of a poetical world , first visited Goethe in the tone with which Goldsmith's tale is told . The fiction became to him life's first reality ...
... fortune and misfortune , good and evil , life and death , and attains to the possession of a poetical world , first visited Goethe in the tone with which Goldsmith's tale is told . The fiction became to him life's first reality ...
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... prevailed through all ; and , properly speaking , they had but one character , that of being all equally generous , credulous , simple , and inoffensive . 20 CHAPTER II . FAMILY MISFORTUNES . THE LOSS OF FORTUNE THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD . 5.
... prevailed through all ; and , properly speaking , they had but one character , that of being all equally generous , credulous , simple , and inoffensive . 20 CHAPTER II . FAMILY MISFORTUNES . THE LOSS OF FORTUNE THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD . 5.
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... fortune of my own , I was careless of temporalities , and felt a secret pleasure in doing my duty without reward . I also set a resolution of keeping no curate , and of being acquainted 10 with every man in the parish , exhorting the ...
... fortune of my own , I was careless of temporalities , and felt a secret pleasure in doing my duty without reward . I also set a resolution of keeping no curate , and of being acquainted 10 with every man in the parish , exhorting the ...
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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.