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... ourselves cheerful and good - natured , we naturally pay our acknowledgements to the powers of sunshine ; or if we sink into dullness and peevishness , look round the horizon for an excuse , and charge our discon- tent upon an easterly ...
... ourselves cheerful and good - natured , we naturally pay our acknowledgements to the powers of sunshine ; or if we sink into dullness and peevishness , look round the horizon for an excuse , and charge our discon- tent upon an easterly ...
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... ourselves now - that is , to have dainties a little above our means , it would be selfish and wicked . It is the very little more that we allow ourselves beyond what the actual poor can get at that makes what I call a treat - when two ...
... ourselves now - that is , to have dainties a little above our means , it would be selfish and wicked . It is the very little more that we allow ourselves beyond what the actual poor can get at that makes what I call a treat - when two ...
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... ourselves been taxed ? For what else are magistrates of any kind ap- pointed ? There is an awfulness in symmetry which chastens even the wildest , and there is a terror in distor- tion at which they strike and fly . It is thus in regard ...
... ourselves been taxed ? For what else are magistrates of any kind ap- pointed ? There is an awfulness in symmetry which chastens even the wildest , and there is a terror in distor- tion at which they strike and fly . It is thus in regard ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | 11 |
An Evening at Vauxhall | 27 |
Copyright | |
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