Oliver Goldsmith: a BiographyG. Routledge, 1850 - 213 pages |
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... purse for a Continental tour - - CHAPTER V. The agreeable fellow - passengers Risks from friends picked up by the way - side Sketches of Holland and the Dutch - Shifts while a poor student at Leyden - The tulip speculation - The ...
... purse for a Continental tour - - CHAPTER V. The agreeable fellow - passengers Risks from friends picked up by the way - side Sketches of Holland and the Dutch - Shifts while a poor student at Leyden - The tulip speculation - The ...
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... skill to direct , and a latent genius that wanted time to mature , and these impressions none of his subsequent follies and irre- * Citizen of the World , Letter xxvii . gularities wholly obliterated . His purse and affection , therefore ...
... skill to direct , and a latent genius that wanted time to mature , and these impressions none of his subsequent follies and irre- * Citizen of the World , Letter xxvii . gularities wholly obliterated . His purse and affection , therefore ...
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Washington Irving. gularities wholly obliterated . His purse and affection , therefore , as well as his house , were now open to him , and he became his chief counsellor and director after his father's death . He urged him to prepare for ...
Washington Irving. gularities wholly obliterated . His purse and affection , therefore , as well as his house , were now open to him , and he became his chief counsellor and director after his father's death . He urged him to prepare for ...
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... purse . ' my " " " However , upon the way I met a poor woman all in tears , who told me her husband had been arrested . for a debt he was not able to pay , and that his eight children must now starve , bereaved as they were of his ...
... purse . ' my " " " However , upon the way I met a poor woman all in tears , who told me her husband had been arrested . for a debt he was not able to pay , and that his eight children must now starve , bereaved as they were of his ...
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... purse , with a horse and servant to con- vey me home ; but the latter I declined , and only took a guinea to bear my necessary expenses on the road . " OLIVER GOLDSMITH . " To Mrs. Anne Goldsmith , Ballymahon . " Such is the story given ...
... purse , with a horse and servant to con- vey me home ; but the latter I declined , and only took a guinea to bear my necessary expenses on the road . " OLIVER GOLDSMITH . " To Mrs. Anne Goldsmith , Ballymahon . " Such is the story given ...
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