| English literature - 1820 - 406 pages
...stone-ball over a gate-post. Now it would be the most ridiculous thing in life to call such people company. 'Tis the want of titles, and not the want of faces,...one knows, if there are none of us in a place, we esteem all the rest as mob and rabble. Here it was impossible for the two ladies any longer to contain... | |
| Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 388 pages
...ball over a Gate-post. Now, it would be the most ridiculous Thing in Life to call such People Company. 'Tis the Want of Titles, and not the Want of Faces, that makes a Place empty." There are indications, which I think have escaped the notice of Goldsmith's editors, that the author... | |
| Edmund Gosse - English essays - 1891 - 360 pages
...ball over a Gate-post. Now, it would be the most ridiculous Thing in Life to call such People Company. Tis the Want of Titles, and not the Want of Faces, that makes a Place empty." There are indications, which I think have escaped the notice of Goldsmith's editors, that the author... | |
| Susan Hale - Eighteenth century - 1898 - 334 pages
...stone-ball over a gate-post. Now it would be the most ridiculous thing in life to call such people company. 'Tis the want of titles and not the want of faces...empty ; for if there is nobody one knows, if there is none of us in a place, we esteem all the rest as mob and rabble." In Smollett's " Humphrey Clinker,"... | |
| Susan Hale - Eighteenth century - 1898 - 336 pages
...the most ridiculous thing in life , to call such people company. 'Tis the want of titles and not t J the want of faces that makes a place empty ; for if there is nobody one knows, if there is none of us in a place, we esteem all the rest as mob and rabble." In Smollett's " Humphrey Clinker,"... | |
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