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Page xxxviii
... desire to see those beautiful young women ; and the ladies , willing to gratify them , came into a balcony at the front of the house , and Goldsmith with them ; but perceiving that it was not him- self who was the object of admiration ...
... desire to see those beautiful young women ; and the ladies , willing to gratify them , came into a balcony at the front of the house , and Goldsmith with them ; but perceiving that it was not him- self who was the object of admiration ...
Page lv
... desire you to examine them . ' These , ' said I , ' are excellent indeed . ' They are , ' replied he , ' intended as an introduction to a body of arts and sciences . ' If so , Dr. Goldsmith , let me most seriously entreat , that , as ...
... desire you to examine them . ' These , ' said I , ' are excellent indeed . ' They are , ' replied he , ' intended as an introduction to a body of arts and sciences . ' If so , Dr. Goldsmith , let me most seriously entreat , that , as ...
Page lxiv
... desire you ; you harrow up my soul ! ' More absurd stories may be recorded of Goldsmith than of any man : his absence of mind would not permit him to attend to time , place , or company . When at the table of a nobleman of high rank and ...
... desire you ; you harrow up my soul ! ' More absurd stories may be recorded of Goldsmith than of any man : his absence of mind would not permit him to attend to time , place , or company . When at the table of a nobleman of high rank and ...
Page lxxiv
... desire of being conspicuous wherever he was , he frequently talked carelessly without knowledge of the subject , or even without thought . His person was short , his countenance coarse and vulgar , his deportment that of a scholar ...
... desire of being conspicuous wherever he was , he frequently talked carelessly without knowledge of the subject , or even without thought . His person was short , his countenance coarse and vulgar , his deportment that of a scholar ...
Page lxxxi
... desire of being conspicuous in com- pany was the occasion of his sometimes appearing to such disadvantage as one should hardly have supposed possible in a man of his genius . When his literary reputation had risen deservedly high , and ...
... desire of being conspicuous in com- pany was the occasion of his sometimes appearing to such disadvantage as one should hardly have supposed possible in a man of his genius . When his literary reputation had risen deservedly high , and ...
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