Goldsmith's Vicar of WakefieldD. C. Heath & Company, 1898 - 264 pages |
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Page vii
... called , bore the signature of Oliver Goldsmith.2 The author of this famous book was born on the 10th of November , 1728 , and was consequently at the time of its pub- lication in his thirty - eighth year . His life had been a strange ...
... called , bore the signature of Oliver Goldsmith.2 The author of this famous book was born on the 10th of November , 1728 , and was consequently at the time of its pub- lication in his thirty - eighth year . His life had been a strange ...
Page viii
... called " the life of a buckeen " among his relatives , who made sundry futile attempts to get him off their hands and started in a definite career . They thought first of the church , and , under protest , Oliver made application to the ...
... called " the life of a buckeen " among his relatives , who made sundry futile attempts to get him off their hands and started in a definite career . They thought first of the church , and , under protest , Oliver made application to the ...
Page ix
... called Fiddleback . Though he marvelled , we need not , that the maternal reception was not enthusiastic . By this time , in- deed , family and friends were in a state of despair , and poor Oliver would probably have been left to his ...
... called Fiddleback . Though he marvelled , we need not , that the maternal reception was not enthusiastic . By this time , in- deed , family and friends were in a state of despair , and poor Oliver would probably have been left to his ...
Page xiii
... called him an " inspired idiot " ; Warton pronounced him the first of " solemn coxcombs " ; Macaulay summed him up as " vain , sensual , frivolous , profuse , improvident . " But Burke burst into tears when he heard of his death ...
... called him an " inspired idiot " ; Warton pronounced him the first of " solemn coxcombs " ; Macaulay summed him up as " vain , sensual , frivolous , profuse , improvident . " But Burke burst into tears when he heard of his death ...
Page xv
... called The Bee , and this was practically written by Goldsmith single- handed . The Bee lived for only eight numbers , but his papers were reprinted under the same title in the December of that year . They are miscellaneous in character ...
... called The Bee , and this was practically written by Goldsmith single- handed . The Bee lived for only eight numbers , but his papers were reprinted under the same title in the December of that year . They are miscellaneous in character ...
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Page 260 - I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. 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. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return,...
Page 42 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
Page 103 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes.
Page 45 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Page 20 - Our little habitation was situated at the foot of a sloping hill, sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind, and a prattling river before ; on one side a meadow, on the other a green.
Page 72 - I have brought back no money," cried Moses again; "I have laid it all out in a bargain, and here it is," pulling out a bundle from his breast ; " here they are — a gross of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases.
Page 43 - Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Page xxxviii - We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo ; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
Page 73 - A fig for the silver rims," cried my wife in a passion; "I dare swear they won't sell - for above half the money, at the rate of broken silver, five shillings an ounce." " You need be under no uneasiness," cried I, "about selling the rims; for they are not worth sixpence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over." "What!" cried my wife, "not silver, the rims not silver!" "No," cried I, "no more silver than your saucepan.