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Page xxviii
... heart was soft even to weakness ; he was so generous that he quite forgot to be just ; he forgave injuries so readily , that he might be said to invite them , and was so liberal to beggars , that he had nothing left for his tailor and ...
... heart was soft even to weakness ; he was so generous that he quite forgot to be just ; he forgave injuries so readily , that he might be said to invite them , and was so liberal to beggars , that he had nothing left for his tailor and ...
Page xxix
... heart was on his lips . All those small jealousies , which are but too common among men of letters , but which a man of letters , who is also a man of the world , does his best to conceal , Goldsmith avowed with the simplicity of a ...
... heart was on his lips . All those small jealousies , which are but too common among men of letters , but which a man of letters , who is also a man of the world , does his best to conceal , Goldsmith avowed with the simplicity of a ...
Page xxx
... heart , though not of his head , a guinea , or five , or ten , according to the state of his purse , ready for any tale of distress , true or false . But it was not in dress or feasting , in promiscuous amours or promiscuous charities ...
... heart , though not of his head , a guinea , or five , or ten , according to the state of his purse , ready for any tale of distress , true or false . But it was not in dress or feasting , in promiscuous amours or promiscuous charities ...
Page xxxix
... heart . Mr. Cumberland , in his own Memoirs , has a passage peculiarly illustrative of this , where he says that Sir Joshua Reynolds was very good to him , and would have drilled him into better trim and order for society , if he would ...
... heart . Mr. Cumberland , in his own Memoirs , has a passage peculiarly illustrative of this , where he says that Sir Joshua Reynolds was very good to him , and would have drilled him into better trim and order for society , if he would ...
Page lxx
... heart , The man had his failings , a dupe to his art . Like an ill - judging beauty , his colours he spread , And ... hearts , yet confoundedly sick , If they were not his own by finessing and trick . He cast off his friends , as a ...
... heart , The man had his failings , a dupe to his art . Like an ill - judging beauty , his colours he spread , And ... hearts , yet confoundedly sick , If they were not his own by finessing and trick . He cast off his friends , as a ...
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