The Plays of Oliver Goldsmith: Together with the Vicar of WakefieldHenry Frowde, 1909 - 520 pages |
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... town , madam , seldom begins to praise a lady's beauty , till she's beginning to lose it . ( Smiling . ) Mrs. Croak . But she's resolved never to lose it , it seems . For , as her natural face decays , her skill improves in making the ...
... town , madam , seldom begins to praise a lady's beauty , till she's beginning to lose it . ( Smiling . ) Mrs. Croak . But she's resolved never to lose it , it seems . For , as her natural face decays , her skill improves in making the ...
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... town , madam , has husbands , like spectacles , to fit every age , from fifteen to fourscore . Mrs. Croak . Well , you're a dear good - natur'd creature . But you know you're engaged with us this morning upon a strolling party . I want ...
... town , madam , has husbands , like spectacles , to fit every age , from fifteen to fourscore . Mrs. Croak . Well , you're a dear good - natur'd creature . But you know you're engaged with us this morning upon a strolling party . I want ...
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... town to show a man in more genteeler practice than myself . Honeyw . Without all question , Mr. - . your name , Sir ? I forget Bail . How can you forget what you never knew ; he ! he ! he ! Honeyw . May I beg leave to ask your name ...
... town to show a man in more genteeler practice than myself . Honeyw . Without all question , Mr. - . your name , Sir ? I forget Bail . How can you forget what you never knew ; he ! he ! he ! Honeyw . May I beg leave to ask your name ...
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... town , to be sure , when it makes such a thing as me the subject of conversation , has asserted , that I never yet patronised a man of merit . Honeyw . I have heard instances to the contrary , even from yourself . Lofty . Yes ...
... town , to be sure , when it makes such a thing as me the subject of conversation , has asserted , that I never yet patronised a man of merit . Honeyw . I have heard instances to the contrary , even from yourself . Lofty . Yes ...
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... town , that was married in red ; and , as sure as eggs is eggs , the bridegroom and she had a miff before morning . Oliv . No matter . the house . I'm all impatience till we are out of Garn . Bless me , madam , I had almost forgot the ...
... town , that was married in red ; and , as sure as eggs is eggs , the bridegroom and she had a miff before morning . Oliv . No matter . the house . I'm all impatience till we are out of Garn . Bless me , madam , I had almost forgot the ...
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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.