 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 536 trang
...proportion to their wants Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of ray most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging but subsistence for the next day. I once or twice attempted to play for people of fashion ; but they always thought my performance odious,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 trang
...wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards night-fall, I played one of my most merry tnnea; and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day." — Tht Vicar of WaJiefidd, chap. XX. Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand. It shifts in splendid... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 trang
...Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards night-fall, I played one of ,ny most merry tunes, and thai procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day." So »lbO the lines In "The Traveller," in the picture of thi* Swiss— "And haply, too, some piltrrira... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 238 trang
...sprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards night-fall, I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured...only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day. I once or twice attempted to play for people of fashion ; but they always thought my performance odious,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 trang
...their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played on my German flute one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not...only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day. I once or twice attempted to play for people of fashion ; but they always thonght my performance odious,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 trang
...sprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards night-fall, I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured...only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day. I once or twice attempted to play for people of fashion; but they always thought my performance odious,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 trang
...sprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards night-fall, I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the nest day. I once or twice attempted to play for people of fashion, but they always thought my performance... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 trang
...Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of my most merry tunes; and UM| procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day." From courts, to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise; Till, seeming... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 trang
...in proportion to their wants, ever I approached a peasant's house towards night-fall, I played oni most merry tunes ; and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsist the next day." — See Life, ch. v.] * [" Th«re is perhaps no couplet in English rhyme more... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 trang
...and whenever I approached a peasant's house, I played one of my most, merry tunes, and that generally procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day ; this, however, was not the case with the rich, who generally despised both me and my music.' On his... | |
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I passed among the harmless peasants of Flanders, and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry ; for I ever found them sprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one... 
