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Page xxxviii
On their entering a town , I think Antwerp , the populace surrounded the door of
the hotel at which they alighted , and testified a desire to see those beautiful
young women ; and the ladies , willing to gratify them , came into a balcony at the
front ...
On their entering a town , I think Antwerp , the populace surrounded the door of
the hotel at which they alighted , and testified a desire to see those beautiful
young women ; and the ladies , willing to gratify them , came into a balcony at the
front ...
Page lv
I one morning called upon him , however , and found him infinitely better than I
expected , and in a kind of exulting style he exclaimed , Here are some of the
best of my prose writings : I have been bard at work ever since midnight , and I
desire ...
I one morning called upon him , however , and found him infinitely better than I
expected , and in a kind of exulting style he exclaimed , Here are some of the
best of my prose writings : I have been bard at work ever since midnight , and I
desire ...
Page lxiv
No more , I desire you ; you barrow 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 ...
No more , I desire you ; you barrow 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 ...
Page lxxiv
... find in his coun . trymen , and which sometimes produces a laughable
confusion in expressing them . He was very much what the French call un étourdi
, and , from vanity and an eager desire of being conspicuous wherever he was ,
he ...
... find in his coun . trymen , and which sometimes produces a laughable
confusion in expressing them . He was very much what the French call un étourdi
, and , from vanity and an eager desire of being conspicuous wherever he was ,
he ...
Page lxxxi
Goldsmith ' s incessant desire of being conspicuous in company 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 ...
Goldsmith ' s incessant desire of being conspicuous in company 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 ...
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| Title | Poetical Works |
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1862 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 mär. 2009 |
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