The Plays of Oliver Goldsmith: Together with the Vicar of WakefieldHenry Frowde, 1909 - 520 pages |
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... pleasure , I promise you ; old Ruggins , the curry - comb maker , lying in state ; I am told he makes a very handsome corpse , and becomes his coffin prodigiously . He was an intimate friend of mine , and these are friendly things we ...
... pleasure , I promise you ; old Ruggins , the curry - comb maker , lying in state ; I am told he makes a very handsome corpse , and becomes his coffin prodigiously . He was an intimate friend of mine , and these are friendly things we ...
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... pleasure , to mortify them by compliance , and so throw the refusal at last upon them . Garn . Delicious ! and that will secure your whole fortune to yourself . Well , who could have thought so innocent a face could cover so much ...
... pleasure , to mortify them by compliance , and so throw the refusal at last upon them . Garn . Delicious ! and that will secure your whole fortune to yourself . Well , who could have thought so innocent a face could cover so much ...
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... pleasure ? Mrs. Croak . Poo , it's from your sister at Lyons , and contains good news ; read it . Croak . What a Frenchified cover is here ! That sister of mine has some good qualities , but I could never teach her to fold a letter ...
... pleasure ? Mrs. Croak . Poo , it's from your sister at Lyons , and contains good news ; read it . Croak . What a Frenchified cover is here ! That sister of mine has some good qualities , but I could never teach her to fold a letter ...
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... . Excuse me , Sir , ' Toils of empires pleasures are , ' as Waller says . Lofty . Waller , Waller , is he of the house ? Mrs. Croak . The modern poet of that name , Sir . Lofty . Oh , a modern ! We men of ACT II ] 29 THE GOOD - NATUR'D MAN.
... . Excuse me , Sir , ' Toils of empires pleasures are , ' as Waller says . Lofty . Waller , Waller , is he of the house ? Mrs. Croak . The modern poet of that name , Sir . Lofty . Oh , a modern ! We men of ACT II ] 29 THE GOOD - NATUR'D MAN.
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... pleasure of being grateful ! of adding my thanks to my Olivia's ! of sharing in the transports that you have thus occasioned ? Croak . Lord , Sir , we can be happy enough , without your coming in to make up the party . I don't know ...
... pleasure of being grateful ! of adding my thanks to my Olivia's ! of sharing in the transports that you have thus occasioned ? Croak . Lord , Sir , we can be happy enough , without your coming in to make up the party . I don't know ...
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Page 505 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Page 346 - 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.
Page 506 - 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.
Page 439 - There the pale artist plies the sickly trade; Here while the proud their long-drawn pomps display, There the black gibbet glooms beside the way.
Page 99 - I'll leave it to all men of sense, But you, my good friend, are the Pigeon. Toroddle, toroddle, toroll. Then come, put the jorum about, And let us be merry and clever, Our hearts and our liquors are stout, Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons for ever.
Page 320 - ... 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 ; for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants. 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.
Page 233 - Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign !" " And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine ?" " No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true ; The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Page 94 - Pray, my dear, disappoint them for one night, at least. Tony. As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself!
Page 206 - Nothing could exceed the neatness of my little enclosures, the elms and hedge-rows appearing with inexpressible beauty. My house consisted of but one story, and was covered with thatch, which gave it an air of great snugness ; the walls on the inside were nicely white-washed, and my daughters undertook to adorn them with pictures of their own designing.
Page 256 - A gross of green spectacles ! " repeated my wife, in a faint voice ; " and you have parted with the colt, and brought us back nothing, but a gross of green, paltry spectacles ! " " Dear mother," cried the boy, ''' why won't you listen to reason ? I had them a dead bargain, or I should not have bought them. The silver rims alone, will sell for double the money.