 ... they should sit with us at the same table. So that, if we had not very rich, we generally had very happy friends about us; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated; and...  The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale - Page 4by Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 204 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 574 lehte
...The Vicar of Wakefield seems to have followed the example of the good King William, for he says : " When any one of our relations was found to be a person of very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1887 - 246 lehte
...for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated : and as some men gaze with admiration at the colors of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces.... | |
 | George Eugène-Fasnacht - 1890 - 274 lehte
...remark will hold good through ( = in the) life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he is 15 with being treated ; and as some [men] gaze with admiration...a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, so I was, by ( = of) nature, an admirer of happy human faces. However, when any one of our relations was found to... | |
 | George Eugène-Fasnacht - 1890 - 272 lehte
...remark will hold good through ( = in the) life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he is 1s with being treated ; and as some [men] gaze with admiration...of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, so I was, ¡У ( - of) nature, an admirer of happy human faces. However, when any one of our relations was found... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - 1890 - 530 lehte
...fagen fie. As the stars, so shall thy seed be. (Bible.) As some men gaze with admiration at the colors of a tulip or the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces. (Goldsmith.) SBie bie ©terne, fo (oil bein Same fein. 38 ie einige SKenfdjen mit Serounberung bie... | |
 | Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton - 1892 - 120 lehte
...us; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest the better pleased he ever is with being treated; and as some men gaze with admiration...nature an admirer of happy human faces. However, when anyone of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1893 - 780 lehte
...for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house... | |
 | William Charles Arlington Blew - 1894 - 434 lehte
...he conceived the following sentiment, which he soon after introduced in the "Vicar of Wakefield " : "As some men gaze with admiration at the colours of...I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces." Altogether, then, Brighton owes much to the writings of her early visitors ; but had the mayor and... | |
 | 1895 - 416 lehte
...for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated : and as some men gaze with...any one of our relations was found to be a person of very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1895 - 236 lehte
...treated : and as some men gaze with admiration at the colors of a tulip, and others are smitten with the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer...any one of our relations was found to be a person of very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house... | |
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