 ... they should sit with us at the same table. So that, if we had not very rich, we generally had very happy friends about us; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated; and...  The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale - Page 4by Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 204 lehteFull view - About this book
 | John Trusler - 1769 - 268 lehte
...the following fentiment, which he foon after introduced in the VICAR of WAKBFIELD: " As fome men ga2e with " admiration at the colours of a tulip, " or the wing of a butterfly, fo I was " bynature an admirer of happy humap " faces." IT muft not be omitted that there is no place... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 106 lehte
...through life, that the poorer the gueft, the better pleafed he ever is with being treated ; and as fome men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, fo I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces. However, when any one of our relations was found... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 252 lehte
...through life, that the poorer thcgueft, the better pleafed he ever is with being treated ; and as fome men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, fo I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces. However, when any one of oar relations was found... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 lehte
...for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated : and as some men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip, and others are smitten with the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1801 - 424 lehte
...through life, that the poorer the gueft, the better pleafed he ever is with being treated : and as fome men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, fo I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces. However, when any one of our relations was found... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 438 lehte
...for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated : and as some men gaze with...any one of our relations was found to be a person of very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 428 lehte
...for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated : and as some men gaze with...any one of our relations was found to be a person of very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 lehte
...for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever erest, said co« lours of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces.... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1824 - 612 lehte
...like the dress worn by Quakers ; made wholly of (1) " The poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated : and as some men gaze with...was by nature an admirer of happy human faces."— Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. I. white woollen ; — in which they appear clad from head to foot ; a leathern... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 lehte
...for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated : and as some men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip, or the wings of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of hJppy human faces. However, when any one of... | |
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