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Page liv
... town with my wife , who was to place herself under the care of Mr. Parkinson , dentist , in Fleet- street , for rather a dangerous operation ; and we took lodgings in Norfolk - street , that we might be in his neighbourhood . Goldsmith ...
... town with my wife , who was to place herself under the care of Mr. Parkinson , dentist , in Fleet- street , for rather a dangerous operation ; and we took lodgings in Norfolk - street , that we might be in his neighbourhood . Goldsmith ...
Page lv
... town for Leicestershire , I insisted upon his dining with us . He replied , ' I will ; but on one condition , that you will not ask me to eat any thing . ' ' Nay , ' said I , ' this answer , Goldsmith , is absolutely unkind ; for I had ...
... town for Leicestershire , I insisted upon his dining with us . He replied , ' I will ; but on one condition , that you will not ask me to eat any thing . ' ' Nay , ' said I , ' this answer , Goldsmith , is absolutely unkind ; for I had ...
Page lvi
... town at every inconvenience . Yet , alas ! what could I have done ? With one or two select friends , I might have stood by his bedside , deeply lamenting his most unfortunate fate , till he , in a last agony , would have exclaimed ...
... town at every inconvenience . Yet , alas ! what could I have done ? With one or two select friends , I might have stood by his bedside , deeply lamenting his most unfortunate fate , till he , in a last agony , would have exclaimed ...
Page lvii
... town , I often talked about Goldsmith to him , and persuaded him to go and see the puppetshow . He was quite surprised and entertained , and declared that , at the conclusion of the little comedy , the puppets acted so naturally , that ...
... town , I often talked about Goldsmith to him , and persuaded him to go and see the puppetshow . He was quite surprised and entertained , and declared that , at the conclusion of the little comedy , the puppets acted so naturally , that ...
Page lviii
... town . Goldsmith's turn was for very low hu- mour , always dangerous ; but when some authors hinted to him , that , for a man to write genteel comedy , it was necessary that he should be well acquainted with high life himself , ' True ...
... town . Goldsmith's turn was for very low hu- mour , always dangerous ; but when some authors hinted to him , that , for a man to write genteel comedy , it was necessary that he should be well acquainted with high life himself , ' True ...
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