The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.J. Johnson, G. and J. Robinson, W. J. and J. Richardson, 1801 |
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... best - natured men alive neglects me ; and if you know me fo ill as to think amifs of me , with regard to my friendship for you , you really do not deferve f half the trouble you occafion me . I need not tell you , B 3 6 you , that both ...
... best - natured men alive neglects me ; and if you know me fo ill as to think amifs of me , with regard to my friendship for you , you really do not deferve f half the trouble you occafion me . I need not tell you , B 3 6 you , that both ...
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... best friends among the reft , and even blaf- phemed Homer himfelf . Dear fir , not only as you are a friend , and a good - natured man , but as you are a christian and a divine , come back fpeedily , ⚫ and prevent the increase of my ...
... best friends among the reft , and even blaf- phemed Homer himfelf . Dear fir , not only as you are a friend , and a good - natured man , but as you are a christian and a divine , come back fpeedily , ⚫ and prevent the increase of my ...
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... best advantage ; for , when he found his fits of fpleen and uneafinefs , which sometimes lafted for weeks toge- ther , returning , he returned with all expedition to the remote parts of Ireland , and there made out a gloomy kind of ...
... best advantage ; for , when he found his fits of fpleen and uneafinefs , which sometimes lafted for weeks toge- ther , returning , he returned with all expedition to the remote parts of Ireland , and there made out a gloomy kind of ...
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... best ftatue , and decked it with ، its old laurels , fhould alfo hang up the fcare - crow of ' his miferable critic , and gibbet up the carcafe of ، Zoilus , to the terror of the witlings of pofterity . ' More , and much more , upon ...
... best ftatue , and decked it with ، its old laurels , fhould alfo hang up the fcare - crow of ' his miferable critic , and gibbet up the carcafe of ، Zoilus , to the terror of the witlings of pofterity . ' More , and much more , upon ...
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... best bed again , they permitted him to make one of the company . There is fomething fatisfactory in these accounts of the follies of the wife ; they give a natural air to the picture , and reconcile us to our own . There have been few ...
... best bed again , they permitted him to make one of the company . There is fomething fatisfactory in these accounts of the follies of the wife ; they give a natural air to the picture , and reconcile us to our own . There have been few ...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of ..., Volume 4 Oliver Goldsmith Visualização completa - 1825 |
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Página 66 - As to the return of his health and vigour, were you here, you might inquire of his haymakers ; but as to his temperance, I can answer that (for one whole day ) we have had nothing for dinner but mutton broth, beans, and bacon, and a barn-door fowl.
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Página 239 - ... the laughing-stock of the school. Every trick is played upon the usher; the oddity of his manners, his dress, or his language, is a fund of eternal ridicule; the master himself now and then cannot avoid joining in the laugh, and the poor wretch, eternally resenting this ill usage, seems to live in a state of war with all the family.
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