The Vicar of Wakefield: A TaleAppleton, 1842 - 284 oldal Details the romantic intrigues in the family of a country vicar in eighteenth century England. |
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A Tale Oliver Goldsmith, John Aikin. ISKE ET CORD OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . SEARA 253 ཉྩ we kept going. So he falls a - jumping and shaking the bough . UNIVERSITY PRESS , JOHN F. TROW , PRINTER .
A Tale Oliver Goldsmith, John Aikin. ISKE ET CORD OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . SEARA 253 ཉྩ we kept going. So he falls a - jumping and shaking the bough . UNIVERSITY PRESS , JOHN F. TROW , PRINTER .
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... going ; but we had but little more than loaded our fusees , and put ourselves in readiness , when we heard a terrible noise in the same wood on our left , only that it was farther onward , the same way we were to go . The night was ...
... going ; but we had but little more than loaded our fusees , and put ourselves in readiness , when we heard a terrible noise in the same wood on our left , only that it was farther onward , the same way we were to go . The night was ...
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... going to bed , ordered a hot cake to be prepared for his breakfast : nor was it till he was about to depart , and called for his bill , that he discovered his mistake . The celebrated Edmund Burke was at the same time a collegian there ...
... going to bed , ordered a hot cake to be prepared for his breakfast : nor was it till he was about to depart , and called for his bill , that he discovered his mistake . The celebrated Edmund Burke was at the same time a collegian there ...
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... going to India , he cir- culated proposals to print by subscription , " An Essay on the present State of Taste and Literature in Europe , " as a means of defraying the expenses of his fitting out for the voyage . • dine at Dr. Milner's ...
... going to India , he cir- culated proposals to print by subscription , " An Essay on the present State of Taste and Literature in Europe , " as a means of defraying the expenses of his fitting out for the voyage . • dine at Dr. Milner's ...
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... going forth to his morn- ing's labor , and returning at night to the bosom of domestic happiness . It sufficiently accounts for that patriot passion for which they have ever been so celebrated , and which is here described in lines that ...
... going forth to his morn- ing's labor , and returning at night to the bosom of domestic happiness . It sufficiently accounts for that patriot passion for which they have ever been so celebrated , and which is here described in lines that ...
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acquaintance Æsop amusement appearance beauty Burchell called character charm child Christian church comfort continued cried my wife daugh daughter dear eldest Flamborough fortune friendship gentleman girls give going Goldsmith happy Harriet Martineau heart Heaven honest honor hope horse Isaac Taylor Jenkinson John Angell James letter Livy look madam Manetho manner marriage married Mary Howitt mind miseries Miss Wilmot MONOGAMIE morning Moses nature neighbor never night observed Ocellus Lucanus OLIVER GOLDSMITH Olivia once opinion papa passion perceived pleased pleasure poet poor present prison promise received replied resolved rest returned Robinson Crusoe seemed Sir William sister soon Sophia specta squire Stoops to Conquer stranger thee things Thornhill Thornhill's thou thought tion town Traveller turn Vicar of Wakefield virtue volume Wakefield wretched young lady
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12. oldal - Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging but subsistence for the next day.
84. oldal - Forbear, my son,' the Hermit cries, ' To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. ' 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.
29. oldal - With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail. For the joy of each sex, on the world I'll bestow it. This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet ; Though a mixture so odd, he shall merit great fame, And among brother mortals — be GOLDSMITH his name : When on earth this strange meteor no more shall appear, You, Hermes,...
64. oldal - My farm consisted of about twenty acres of excellent land, having given a hundred pounds for my predecessor's good-will. Nothing could exceed the neatness of my little enclosures, the elms and hedgerows appearing with inexpressible beauty. My house consisted of but one story, and was covered with thatch, which gave it an air of great snugness...
180. oldal - Upon asking how he had been taught the art of a cognoscente so very suddenly, he assured me that nothing was more easy. The whole secret consisted in a strict adherence to two rules: the one always to observe, that the picture might have been better if the painter had taken more pains ; and the other, to praise the works of Pietro Perugino. But...
207. oldal - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
86. oldal - Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to...
43. oldal - THERE are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
111. oldal - ... commission ; and the next morning I perceived his sisters mighty busy in fitting out Moses for the fair ; trimming his hair, brushing his buckles, and cocking his hat with pins. The business of the toilet being over, we had at last the satisfaction of seeing him mounted upon the colt, with a deal box before him to bring home groceries in. He had on a coat made of that cloth they call thunder and lightning, which, though grown too short, was much too good to be thrown away.
46. oldal - We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo ; all our adventures were by the fire-side, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.