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... expense of his toilet . - Amusements at Barton . - Aquatic misadven- ture , · 275 CHAPTER XXXIII . Dinner at General Oglethorpe's . - Anecdotes of the general . - Dispute about duelling . - Ghost stories , • 279 CHAPTER XXXIV . Mr ...
... expense of his toilet . - Amusements at Barton . - Aquatic misadven- ture , · 275 CHAPTER XXXIII . Dinner at General Oglethorpe's . - Anecdotes of the general . - Dispute about duelling . - Ghost stories , • 279 CHAPTER XXXIV . Mr ...
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... expense , dubbing him his little Æsop . Goldsmith was nettled by the jest , and . stopping short in the hornpipe , exclaimed , " Our herald hath proclaimed this saying , See Æsop dancing , and his monkey playing . " The repartee was ...
... expense , dubbing him his little Æsop . Goldsmith was nettled by the jest , and . stopping short in the hornpipe , exclaimed , " Our herald hath proclaimed this saying , See Æsop dancing , and his monkey playing . " The repartee was ...
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... expense . The greater part , however , was borne by his uncle , the Rev. Thomas Contarine . This worthy man had been the college companion of Bishop Berkeley , and was possessed of moderate means , holding the living of Carrick - on ...
... expense . The greater part , however , was borne by his uncle , the Rev. Thomas Contarine . This worthy man had been the college companion of Bishop Berkeley , and was possessed of moderate means , holding the living of Carrick - on ...
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... expenses . He was but a stripling of sixteen , and being thus suddenly mounted on horseback , with money in his ... expense , he directed him to what was literally " the best house in the place , " namely , the family mansion of Mr ...
... expenses . He was but a stripling of sixteen , and being thus suddenly mounted on horseback , with money in his ... expense , he directed him to what was literally " the best house in the place , " namely , the family mansion of Mr ...
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... expenses of my voyage . But it so happened that the wind did not answer for three weeks ; and you know , mother , that I could not command the elements . My misfortune was , that , when the wind served , I happened to be with a party in ...
... expenses of my voyage . But it so happened that the wind did not answer for three weeks ; and you know , mother , that I could not command the elements . My misfortune was , that , when the wind served , I happened to be with a party in ...
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الصفحة 247 - ... bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
الصفحة 21 - More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train...
الصفحة 159 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated.
الصفحة 288 - Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall with a black lead pencil.
الصفحة 221 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
الصفحة 79 - Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! Poor houseless creatures ! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.
الصفحة 134 - Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
الصفحة 194 - By this time my curiosity began to abate, and my appetite to increase ; the company of fools may at first make us smile, but at last never fails of rendering us melancholy. I therefore pretended to recollect a prior engagement, and after having...
الصفحة 189 - Johnson, to be 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.
الصفحة 167 - I could say nothing but that I had a brother there, a clergyman, that stood in need of help: as for myself, I have no dependence on the promises of great men: I look to the booksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.