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... present finances at play ; often he lavished them away in fits of unguarded charity or generosity . Sometimes among his boon companions he assumed a ludicrous swagger in money matters , which no one afterward was more ready than himself ...
... present finances at play ; often he lavished them away in fits of unguarded charity or generosity . Sometimes among his boon companions he assumed a ludicrous swagger in money matters , which no one afterward was more ready than himself ...
Page 58
... present . The following letter to his friend Bryanton , contains some of Goldsmith's impressions concerning Scotland and its inhabitants , and gives indications of that humor which characterized some of his later writings . " Robert ...
... present . The following letter to his friend Bryanton , contains some of Goldsmith's impressions concerning Scotland and its inhabitants , and gives indications of that humor which characterized some of his later writings . " Robert ...
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... presents the same dismal landscape . No grove , nor brook , lend their music to cheer the stranger , or make the inhabitants forget their poverty . Yet with all these disadvan- tages to call him down to humility , a Scotchman is one of ...
... presents the same dismal landscape . No grove , nor brook , lend their music to cheer the stranger , or make the inhabitants forget their poverty . Yet with all these disadvan- tages to call him down to humility , a Scotchman is one of ...
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... present them- selves ; but when you enter their towns you are charmed beyond description . No misery is to be seen here ; every one is usefully employed . " And again , in his noble description in " The Trav- eller : " " To men of other ...
... present them- selves ; but when you enter their towns you are charmed beyond description . No misery is to be seen here ; every one is usefully employed . " And again , in his noble description in " The Trav- eller : " " To men of other ...
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... present means of subsistence . I passed among the harmless peasants of Flanders , and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry , for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants . When- ever I approached ...
... present means of subsistence . I passed among the harmless peasants of Flanders , and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry , for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants . When- ever I approached ...
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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.