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Bill Bullet now can drive a roaring trade , And picks up Countesses in
Masquerade ; Walks round the new Great room * with Dukes and Peer 6 , And
swears he ' ll never balk his country jeers ; Nay , more , they much admires his
lounging gait ...
Bill Bullet now can drive a roaring trade , And picks up Countesses in
Masquerade ; Walks round the new Great room * with Dukes and Peer 6 , And
swears he ' ll never balk his country jeers ; Nay , more , they much admires his
lounging gait ...
Page lxxv
... Well , you acquitted yourself in this conversation better than I should have done
; for I should have bowed and stammered through the whole of it . ' To obviate all
the reflections which have gone round the ANECDOTES OF GOLDSMITH . lxxv.
... Well , you acquitted yourself in this conversation better than I should have done
; for I should have bowed and stammered through the whole of it . ' To obviate all
the reflections which have gone round the ANECDOTES OF GOLDSMITH . lxxv.
Page lxxvi
To obviate all the reflections which have gone round the world to Johnson ' s
prejudice , by applying to him the epithet of a bear , let me impress upon my
readers a just and happy saying of my friend Goldsmith , who knew him well : "
Johnson ...
To obviate all the reflections which have gone round the world to Johnson ' s
prejudice , by applying to him the epithet of a bear , let me impress upon my
readers a just and happy saying of my friend Goldsmith , who knew him well : "
Johnson ...
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This epitaph Johnson executed ; but in the criticism that was attempted against it ,
and in the Round - Robin signed at Beauclerc ' s house , I had no part . I had no
acquaintance with that gentleman , and was never in his house in my life .
This epitaph Johnson executed ; but in the criticism that was attempted against it ,
and in the Round - Robin signed at Beauclerc ' s house , I had no part . I had no
acquaintance with that gentleman , and was never in his house in my life .
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... drown ' d in tears , drag on the encumbering chain . ' Blackmore ' s Arthur , p .
212 . Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend , And round his.
... drown ' d in tears , drag on the encumbering chain . ' Blackmore ' s Arthur , p .
212 . Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend , And round his.
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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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