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Page xvi
... mind something of the old inconsiderate benevolence which had been the Goldsmith family - failing , set about his first comedy , The Good - Natur'd Man . Even without experiment , no one could have known better than Goldsmith , upon ...
... mind something of the old inconsiderate benevolence which had been the Goldsmith family - failing , set about his first comedy , The Good - Natur'd Man . Even without experiment , no one could have known better than Goldsmith , upon ...
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... mind a less laborious entertainment , they at first rival Poetry , and at length supplant her ; they engross all that favour once shown to her , and though but younger sisters , seize upon the elder's birthright . Yet , however this art ...
... mind a less laborious entertainment , they at first rival Poetry , and at length supplant her ; they engross all that favour once shown to her , and though but younger sisters , seize upon the elder's birthright . Yet , however this art ...
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... mind is once infected with this disease , it can only find pleasure in what contributes to increase the distemper . Like the tiger , that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh , the reader , who has ...
... mind is once infected with this disease , it can only find pleasure in what contributes to increase the distemper . Like the tiger , that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh , the reader , who has ...
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... mind disdain That good , which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school - taught pride dissemble all it can , These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he , whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind ...
... mind disdain That good , which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school - taught pride dissemble all it can , These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he , whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind ...
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... mind , That opulence departed leaves behind ; For wealth was theirs , not far remov'd the date , When commerce proudly flourish'd through the state ; At her command the palace learn'd to rise , Again the long - fall'n column sought the ...
... mind , That opulence departed leaves behind ; For wealth was theirs , not far remov'd the date , When commerce proudly flourish'd through the state ; At her command the palace learn'd to rise , Again the long - fall'n column sought the ...
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