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... pleasure itself , if permanent , would be insupportable , and we are thus obliged to solicit new happiness even by courting distress . I only , therefore , wait the arrival of my son to vary this trifling scene , and borrow new pleasure ...
... pleasure itself , if permanent , would be insupportable , and we are thus obliged to solicit new happiness even by courting distress . I only , therefore , wait the arrival of my son to vary this trifling scene , and borrow new pleasure ...
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... pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I - I myself , and not another -would eat her nice cake - and what should I say to her the next time I saw her - how naughty I was to part with her pretty present - and the odour of that ...
... pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I - I myself , and not another -would eat her nice cake - and what should I say to her the next time I saw her - how naughty I was to part with her pretty present - and the odour of that ...
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... pleasure in being a poor man ? Or can those neat black clothes which you wear now , and are so careful to keep brushed , since we have become rich and finical , give you half the honest vanity with which you flaunted it about in that ...
... pleasure in being a poor man ? Or can those neat black clothes which you wear now , and are so careful to keep brushed , since we have become rich and finical , give you half the honest vanity with which you flaunted it about in that ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | 11 |
An Evening at Vauxhall | 27 |
Copyright | |
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