The miscellaneous works of OLiver Goldsmith [ed. by S. Rose].1812 |
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... side , but not one on him . I could on this occasion make myself melan- choly , by considering the capriciousness of public taste , or the mutability of fortune ; but during this fit of morality , lost my reader should sleep , I'll take ...
... side , but not one on him . I could on this occasion make myself melan- choly , by considering the capriciousness of public taste , or the mutability of fortune ; but during this fit of morality , lost my reader should sleep , I'll take ...
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... sides fight by epigram CXIII . Against the marriage act . A fable . 438 CXIV . On the danger of having too high an opi- nion of human nature CXV . sion 443 Whether love be a natural or fictitious pas- CXVI . A city night - piece 447 ...
... sides fight by epigram CXIII . Against the marriage act . A fable . 438 CXIV . On the danger of having too high an opi- nion of human nature CXV . sion 443 Whether love be a natural or fictitious pas- CXVI . A city night - piece 447 ...
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... side , forcibly attended me home to my own apartment . She seemed charmed with the elegance of the furniture , and the convenience of my situa- ion and well indeed she might , for I have hired an apartment for not less than two ...
... side , forcibly attended me home to my own apartment . She seemed charmed with the elegance of the furniture , and the convenience of my situa- ion and well indeed she might , for I have hired an apartment for not less than two ...
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... side of the question ; priests are eternally dis- puting against each other ; and those mouths that want argument are filled with abuse . Which party must I believe , or shall I give credit to neither ? When I survey the absurdities and ...
... side of the question ; priests are eternally dis- puting against each other ; and those mouths that want argument are filled with abuse . Which party must I believe , or shall I give credit to neither ? When I survey the absurdities and ...
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... side . Farewell . LETTER XVII . FROM THE SAME . WERE an Asiatic politician to read the treaties of peace and friendship that have been annually making for more than an hundred years among the inhabi- tants of Europe , he would probably ...
... side . Farewell . LETTER XVII . FROM THE SAME . WERE an Asiatic politician to read the treaties of peace and friendship that have been annually making for more than an hundred years among the inhabi- tants of Europe , he would probably ...
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