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Page xciii
... lost no time to put him at his ease , and I flatter myself I was suc- cessful . As my heart was ever warm towards my contempo- raries , I did not counterfeit , but really felt a cordial interest 6 in his behalf ; and I had soon the ...
... lost no time to put him at his ease , and I flatter myself I was suc- cessful . As my heart was ever warm towards my contempo- raries , I did not counterfeit , but really felt a cordial interest 6 in his behalf ; and I had soon the ...
Page xciv
... and how to follow them up . We had amongst us a very worthy and efficient member , long since lost to his friends and the world at large , Adam Drummond , of amiable memory , who was gifted by xciv ANECDOTES OF GOLDSMITH .
... and how to follow them up . We had amongst us a very worthy and efficient member , long since lost to his friends and the world at large , Adam Drummond , of amiable memory , who was gifted by xciv ANECDOTES OF GOLDSMITH .
Page xcvi
... lost all recollection of them , and in fact they were little worth remembering ; but as they were serious and complimentary , the effect they had upon Goldsmith was the more pleasing for being so entirely unexpected . The con- cluding ...
... lost all recollection of them , and in fact they were little worth remembering ; but as they were serious and complimentary , the effect they had upon Goldsmith was the more pleasing for being so entirely unexpected . The con- cluding ...
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... lost the character of a wise one . Him they dignify with the name of poet : his tawdry lampoons are called satires ; his turbulence is said to be force , and his frenzy fire . What reception a poem may find , which has neither abuse ...
... lost the character of a wise one . Him they dignify with the name of poet : his tawdry lampoons are called satires ; his turbulence is said to be force , and his frenzy fire . What reception a poem may find , which has neither abuse ...
Page 47
... lost to all , her friends , her virtue fled , Near her betrayer's door she lays her head , And , pinch'd with cold , and shrinking from the shower , With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour , When idly first , ambitious of the town ...
... lost to all , her friends , her virtue fled , Near her betrayer's door she lays her head , And , pinch'd with cold , and shrinking from the shower , With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour , When idly first , ambitious of the town ...
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