Poetical WorksLittle, Brown, 1862 |
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Page lix
... pleasures engage That horses and hounds can bestow ; Among the great folks , What their whims and their jokes , Compar'd with a good Tally - ho ! To learn the soft airs Of your opera - players , For ever the fine ladies go ; Ah ! what ...
... pleasures engage That horses and hounds can bestow ; Among the great folks , What their whims and their jokes , Compar'd with a good Tally - ho ! To learn the soft airs Of your opera - players , For ever the fine ladies go ; Ah ! what ...
Page lxvii
... pleasures , but could not devote himself to industry long enough to purchase them by his writings . Upon every emergency , half a dozen projects would present themselves to his mind ; these he communicated to the men who were to advance ...
... pleasures , but could not devote himself to industry long enough to purchase them by his writings . Upon every emergency , half a dozen projects would present themselves to his mind ; these he communicated to the men who were to advance ...
Page lxxxvi
... pleasure of hearing Dr. Johnson read it from the beginning to the end on its first coming out , to testify her admiration of it , exclaimed , ' I never more shall think Dr. Goldsmith ugly . ' In having thought so , however , she was by ...
... pleasure of hearing Dr. Johnson read it from the beginning to the end on its first coming out , to testify her admiration of it , exclaimed , ' I never more shall think Dr. Goldsmith ugly . ' In having thought so , however , she was by ...
Page xcii
... pleasure it bestows ; obscurity never calls us back to a repetition of it . That he was a poet there is no doubt ; but the paucity of his verses does not allow us to rank him in that high station where his genius might have carried him ...
... pleasure it bestows ; obscurity never calls us back to a repetition of it . That he was a poet there is no doubt ; but the paucity of his verses does not allow us to rank him in that high station where his genius might have carried him ...
Page xciv
Oliver Goldsmith. 6 in his behalf ; and I had soon the pleasure to perceive that he credited me for my sincerity . You and I , ' said he , ' have very different motives for resorting to the stage . I write for money , and care little ...
Oliver Goldsmith. 6 in his behalf ; and I had soon the pleasure to perceive that he credited me for my sincerity . You and I , ' said he , ' have very different motives for resorting to the stage . I write for money , and care little ...
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