The Plays of Oliver Goldsmith: Together with The Vicar of WakefieldH. Frowde, 1909 - 520 pages |
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... wife ? who , though both very fine in their way , are yet a little opposite in their dispositions , you know . Jarv . Opposite enough , heaven knows ; the very reverse of each other ; she all laugh and no joke ; he always complaining ...
... wife ? who , though both very fine in their way , are yet a little opposite in their dispositions , you know . Jarv . Opposite enough , heaven knows ; the very reverse of each other ; she all laugh and no joke ; he always complaining ...
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... wife has so encroached upon every one of my privi- leges , that I'm now no more than a mere lodger in my own house . Honeyw . But a little spirit exerted on your side might perhaps restore your authority . Croak . No , though I had the ...
... wife has so encroached upon every one of my privi- leges , that I'm now no more than a mere lodger in my own house . Honeyw . But a little spirit exerted on your side might perhaps restore your authority . Croak . No , though I had the ...
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... wife was of the party . On my conscience , I believe she could spread an horse - laugh through the pews of a tabernacle . Leont . Since you find so many objections to a wife , Sir , how can you be so earnest in recommending one to me ...
... wife was of the party . On my conscience , I believe she could spread an horse - laugh through the pews of a tabernacle . Leont . Since you find so many objections to a wife , Sir , how can you be so earnest in recommending one to me ...
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... wife . Leont . But , Sir , though , in obedience to your desire , I am ready to marry her ; it may be possible , she has no inclination to me . Croak . I'll tell you once for all how it stands . A good part of Miss Richland's large ...
... wife . Leont . But , Sir , though , in obedience to your desire , I am ready to marry her ; it may be possible , she has no inclination to me . Croak . I'll tell you once for all how it stands . A good part of Miss Richland's large ...
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... wife and four children , a guinea or two would be more to him , than twice as much to another . Now , as I can't shew him any humanity myself , I must beg leave you'll do it for me . Honeyw . I assure you , Mr. Twitch , yours is a most ...
... wife and four children , a guinea or two would be more to him , than twice as much to another . Now , as I can't shew him any humanity myself , I must beg leave you'll do it for me . Honeyw . I assure you , Mr. Twitch , yours is a most ...
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Page 504 - 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.
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 309 - I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late : I was brow-beat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys within, and never permitted to stir out to meet civility abroad.
Page 227 - 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 98 - I'll wager the rascals a crown They always preach best with a skinful. But when you come down with your pence For a slice of their scurvy religion, 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...
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 111 - Good, very good, thank you ; ha ! ha ! Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene, when he fought the Turks at the battle of Belgrade. You shall hear Marl.
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 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.