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Page vi
... poor student at Leyden . The tulip speculation . - The provident flute .-- Sojourn at Paris.- Sketch of Voltaire .-- Travelling shifts of a philosophic vagabond , 66 CHAPTER VI . Landing in England . - Shifts of a man without money ...
... poor student at Leyden . The tulip speculation . - The provident flute .-- Sojourn at Paris.- Sketch of Voltaire .-- Travelling shifts of a philosophic vagabond , 66 CHAPTER VI . Landing in England . - Shifts of a man without money ...
Page ix
... Poor friends among great acquaintances , 212 CHAPTER XXIV . Reduced again to book - building . - Rural retreat at Shoemaker's Paradise.- Death of Henry Goldsmith - tributes to his memory in the Deserted Vil- lage , 218 CHAPTER XXV ...
... Poor friends among great acquaintances , 212 CHAPTER XXIV . Reduced again to book - building . - Rural retreat at Shoemaker's Paradise.- Death of Henry Goldsmith - tributes to his memory in the Deserted Vil- lage , 218 CHAPTER XXV ...
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... poor , and starved along for several years on a small country curacy and the assistance of his wife's friends . His whole income , eked out by the produce of some fields which he farmed , and of some oc- casional duties performed for ...
... poor , and starved along for several years on a small country curacy and the assistance of his wife's friends . His whole income , eked out by the produce of some fields which he farmed , and of some oc- casional duties performed for ...
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... Poor as he was , he had his flatterers poorer than himself : for every dinner he gave them , they returned him an equivalent in praise ; and this was all he wanted . The same ambition that actuates a monarch at the head of his army ...
... Poor as he was , he had his flatterers poorer than himself : for every dinner he gave them , they returned him an equivalent in praise ; and this was all he wanted . The same ambition that actuates a monarch at the head of his army ...
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... poor scholar . " He was lodged in one of the top rooms adjoining the library of the building , numbered 35 , where it is said his name may still be seen , scratched by himself upon a window frame . A student of this class is taught and ...
... poor scholar . " He was lodged in one of the top rooms adjoining the library of the building , numbered 35 , where it is said his name may still be seen , scratched by himself upon a window frame . A student of this class is taught and ...
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Page 247 - ... bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 21 - More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train...
Page 159 - 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.
Page 288 - Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall with a black lead pencil.
Page 221 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 79 - Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! Poor houseless creatures ! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.
Page 134 - Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
Page 194 - By this time my curiosity began to abate, and my appetite to increase ; the company of fools may at first make us smile, but at last never fails of rendering us melancholy. I therefore pretended to recollect a prior engagement, and after having...
Page 189 - Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner; but no man alive has a more tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin.
Page 167 - I could say nothing but that I had a brother there, a clergyman, that stood in need of help: as for myself, I have no dependence on the promises of great men: I look to the booksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.