 I had some knowledge of music, with a tolerable voice, and now turned what was once my amusement into a 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;...  Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography - Page 71by Washington Irving - 1854 - 382 pagesFull view - About this book
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...picluies, medals, intaglios, Flanders, and among fuch of the and antiques of all kind?, for a genFrench as were poor enough to be very merry ; for I ever found them fprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peafant's houfe towards night-full,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1766 - 286 pages
...fent means of bare fubfiftence. I paffed " among the harmlefs peafants of Flanders, " and among fuch of the French as were " poor enough to be very merry ; for I " ever " ever found them fprightly in proportion " to their wants. Whenever I approached " a peafant's houfe... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1770 - 238 pages
...prefent means of fubfiftence. I parted ' among the harmlefs peafants of Flanders, * and among fuch of the French as were * poor enough to be very merry •» for I '* ever found them fprightly in proportion -.' to their wants. Whenever I approached ' a peafant's houfe, towards night-fall,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 212 pages
...gassed among the harmless peasants In Flanders> and among such of the French as viere poor enough to be merry; for I ever found them. sprightly in proportion...peasant's house towards night-fall^ I played one of my mo6t merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day. I once... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 106 pages
...into a prefent means of fubfiftence. I parted among the harmlefs peafants of Flanders, and among fuch of the French as were poor enough to be very merry ; for I ever found them fprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever f approached a peafant's houfe, toward« night-fall... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1783 - 272 pages
...prefent means of fubfift*' ence. I pafTed among the harmlefs peafants " of Flanders, and among fuch of the French as " were poor enough to be very merry ; for I e" ver found them fprightly in proportion to their «* wants. Whenever I approached a peafant's " houfe... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 252 pages
...prefent means of fubfiftence. ' I paffed among the harmlefs peafants of Flanders, and ' among fuch of the French as were poor enough to be very ' merry ; for I everfound them fprightly in proportion to their ' wants. Whenever I approached a peafant's houfe, to'... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 pages
...amusement into a present means of sub* sistence. I passed among the harmless peasants of Flan» ders, and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry; for I ever found them sprighu ly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approach= ed a peasant's house towards nighufall,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...'bouse toward nightfall," he used to say, " I played one of my most merry " tunes ; and that generally procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day : but, in truth, (his constant expression) I must " own, whenever I attempted to entertain persons of a higher tank,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1801 - 424 pages
...prefent * means of fubfiftence. I pafled among the harm' leis peafants of Flanders, and among fuch of the ' French as were poor enough to be very merry ; for ' I ever found them fprightly in proportion to their * wants. Whenever I approached a peafant's hSbfe ' towards * towards... | |
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