The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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Page xv
... fortune , both payable at sight , added to which it was always possible that a popular play , in those days when plays were bought to read , might find a brisk market in book form . The prospect was a tempting one , and it is scarcely ...
... fortune , both payable at sight , added to which it was always possible that a popular play , in those days when plays were bought to read , might find a brisk market in book form . The prospect was a tempting one , and it is scarcely ...
Page xix
... fortune had swept him into the ranks of the party - writers , with the result that the damning of his next play , A Word to the Wise , had been exaggerated into a political necessity . But the school which he represented had been ...
... fortune had swept him into the ranks of the party - writers , with the result that the damning of his next play , A Word to the Wise , had been exaggerated into a political necessity . But the school which he represented had been ...
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... Fortune , has retired early to Happiness and Obscurity , with an income of forty pounds a year . I now perceive , my dear brother , the wisdom of your humble choice . You have entered upon a sacred office , where the harvest is great ...
... Fortune , has retired early to Happiness and Obscurity , with an income of forty pounds a year . I now perceive , my dear brother , the wisdom of your humble choice . You have entered upon a sacred office , where the harvest is great ...
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... fortune leads to traverse realms alone , And find no spot of all the world my own . PC . The Citizen of the World , 1762 , i . 5. ( Letter iii . ) ] [ Cf. The Vicar of Wakefield , 1766 , ii . 160-1 ( ch . x . ) . ] Even now , where ...
... fortune leads to traverse realms alone , And find no spot of all the world my own . PC . The Citizen of the World , 1762 , i . 5. ( Letter iii . ) ] [ Cf. The Vicar of Wakefield , 1766 , ii . 160-1 ( ch . x . ) . ] Even now , where ...
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... fortune brings Are trifling and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things , More trifling still than they . " And what is friendship but a name , A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame , But leaves the ...
... fortune brings Are trifling and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things , More trifling still than they . " And what is friendship but a name , A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame , But leaves the ...
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