 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1801 - 424 страници
...world lets rne enjoy joy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumftaces, and nature a perfon to look charming in the eyes of the fair. Nor do I envy my dear Bob fuch bleffings while I may fit' down and laugh at the world, and at myfelf the moft ridiculous object:... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 страници
...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...world, and at myself, the most ridiculous object in it. But you see I am grown downright splenetic, and perhaps the fit may continue till I hear from you.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 438 страници
...world lets me enjoy joy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances, and nature a person to look charming in the eyes of the fair. Nor do I...world, and at myself the most ridiculous object in it. But you see I am grown downright splenetic, and perhaps the fit may continue till I hear from you.... | |
 | 1818 - 596 страници
...the eye of the fair world. Nor do I envy my dear Bob such blessings, while 1 may sit down and l.nir.h at the world, and at myself, the most ridiculous object in it. — But I begin to grow splenetic; and perhaps the fit may continue till 1 receive an answer to this.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 страници
...; he was poor, and he was nearly starved. Yet, in a very lively letter from Edinburgh, adscription of the country and its inhabitants, with the good-humoured...debt, a captivity of seven days at Newcastle, from haying been found in company with some Scotchmen in the French service, and the no less unpleasing... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 страници
...Notwithstanding these erratic expeditions, he was admitted Bachelor of Arts in 1749. TO GOLDSMITH. xxv scription n an ancient castle, (a very natural dream for a head...story,) and that on the uppermost bannister of a bit" From Edinburgh our student passed to Leyden, but not without the diversities of an arrest for... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 страници
...starved. Yet, in a very lively letter from Edinburgh, addressed to Robert Brianton of Ballymahofl, he closes a sarcastic description of the country and...Nor do I envy, my dear Bob, such blessings, while 1 may sit down and laugh at the world and at myself, the most ridiculous object in it. » From Edinburgh... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 418 страници
...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... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 страници
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 358 страници
...abundance. Fortune " has given you circumstances , and Nature a power to look charming in the eyes of tlie fair. Nor do I envy my dear Bob such blessings , while...diversities of an arrest for debt, a captivity of seven daya "at, Newcastle , from having been found in company with some Scotchmen in the" French service... | |
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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,... 
