Poetical WorksLittle, Brown, 1862 |
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... sure as I work to throw in contradictions ; A great lover of truth , yet a mind turn'd to fictions . Now mix these ingredients , which , warm'd in the baking , Turn to learning and gaming , religion and raking . With the love of a wench ...
... sure as I work to throw in contradictions ; A great lover of truth , yet a mind turn'd to fictions . Now mix these ingredients , which , warm'd in the baking , Turn to learning and gaming , religion and raking . With the love of a wench ...
Page lxxv
... sure , it was accidentally worth more money . ' During all the time in which Dr. Johnson was employed in relating to the circle at Sir Joshua Reynolds's the particulars of what passed between the king and him , Dr. Goldsmith remained ...
... sure , it was accidentally worth more money . ' During all the time in which Dr. Johnson was employed in relating to the circle at Sir Joshua Reynolds's the particulars of what passed between the king and him , Dr. Goldsmith remained ...
Page lxxvi
... sure , has a roughness in his manner ; but no man alive has a more tender heart . He has nothing of the bear but his skin . ' - 6 Goldsmith , to divert the tedious minutes , strutted about , bragging of his dress , and I believe was ...
... sure , has a roughness in his manner ; but no man alive has a more tender heart . He has nothing of the bear but his skin . ' - 6 Goldsmith , to divert the tedious minutes , strutted about , bragging of his dress , and I believe was ...
Page lxxxiv
... sure , often enough . ' Goldsmith , in his diverting simplicity , complained one day , in a mixed company , of Lord Camden . I met him , ' said he , ' at Lord Clare's house in the country , and he took no more notice of me than if I had ...
... sure , often enough . ' Goldsmith , in his diverting simplicity , complained one day , in a mixed company , of Lord Camden . I met him , ' said he , ' at Lord Clare's house in the country , and he took no more notice of me than if I had ...
Page lxxxv
... sure I would not have said any thing about it for the world . Now see , ' repeated he , when he told the story , ' what a figure a man makes who thus unaccountably chooses to be the frigid narrator of his own disgrace . Il volto sciolto ...
... sure I would not have said any thing about it for the world . Now see , ' repeated he , when he told the story , ' what a figure a man makes who thus unaccountably chooses to be the frigid narrator of his own disgrace . Il volto sciolto ...
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