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Pàgina 183 - But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Pàgina xxvii - Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Pàgina xxviii - Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd : Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught,
Pàgina 107 - was a small work in two volumes, entitled " The History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son." It was digested from Hume, Rapin, Carte, and Kennet. These authors he would read in the morning; make a few notes; ramble with a friend into the country about the
Pàgina 122 - He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without
Pàgina xxviii - The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face
Pàgina 208 - cheating itself with a dream of rural quiet and seclusion : — " Oh bless'd retirement ! friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease
Pàgina 46 - as were poor enough to be very merry, for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of my merriest tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day ; but in truth I must
Pàgina 210 - The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.' " Captain Hogan, I have heard, found great difficulty in obtaining 'the twelve good rules,' but at length purchased them at some London bookstall to adorn the whitewashed
Pàgina 210 - thing is arranged according to the letter: — "'The whitewash'd wall, the nicely-sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door: The chest, contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day