 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 674 pàgines
...expeditions, he was admitted Bachelor of Arts in 1749. Goldsmith's persevering friend, Mr. Contariue, seems to have recommended the direction of his nephew's...object in it." From Edinburgh our student passed to Leydeu, but not without the diversities of an arrest for debt, a captivity of seven days at Newcastle,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pàgines
...world lets me enjoy 25 in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances, and Nature a person to look charming in the eyes of the fair. Nor do I...and at myself — the most ridiculous object in it. But you see I am grown downright splenetic, and 30 perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 414 pàgines
...the world lets me enjoy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances, and Nature a person to look charming in the eyes of the fair. Nor do I...such blessings, while I may sit down and laugh at 5 the world and at myself — the most ridiculous object in it. But you see I am grown downright splenetic,... | |
 | John Forster - 1903 - 482 pàgines
...himself ; and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance ;" "nor do I envy my dear Bob his blessings, while I may sit down and laugh at the world...and at myself, the most ridiculous object in it," are among his expressions of half bitter, half good-natured candour, in a letter to his cousin Bryanton.... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - 1910 - 370 pàgines
...Fortune has given you circumstances, and nature a person to look charming in the eyes of the fair world. Nor do I envy my dear Bob such blessings, while I...and at myself, the most ridiculous object in it." Here you have the real Goldsmith, very different from the Boswellian and popular conception of him... | |
 | Mabel Duckitt - 1913 - 488 pàgines
...Fortune has given you circumstances, and nature a person to look charming in the eyes of the fair world. Nor do I envy my dear Bob such blessings, while I...world and at myself, the most ridiculous object in it. But I begin to grow splenetic, and perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer to this. I... | |
 | 1848 - 572 pàgines
...concludes a random letter to a friend thus: "Fortune has given you circumstances, and nature a person, to look charming in the eyes of the fair. Nor do I...and at myself, the most ridiculous object in it," Having gone through the course at Edinburgh, "after a fashion," he was about to leave for Leyden, to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1928 - 252 pàgines
...Fortune has given you circumstance's and Nature a person to look charming in the Eyes of the fair world nor do I envy my Dear Bob such blessings while I may sit down and [laugh at the wor] *ld, and at myself — the most ridiculous object in it. But [you see I am grown downright] splenetick,... | |
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tis certain, handsome women here ; and 'tis as certain, they have handsome men to keep them company. An ugly and a poor man is society only for himself ; and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances,... 
