 ... life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated; and as some men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip or the wing of a butterfly, so I was, by nature, an admirer of happy human faces.  The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 2by Oliver Goldsmith - 1812Full view - About this book
 | John Trusler - Great Britain - 1769 - 268 pages
...the following fentiment, which he foon after introduced in the VICAR of WAKBFIELD: " As fome men ga2e with " admiration at the colours of a tulip, " or the wing of a butterfly, fo I was " bynature an admirer of happy humap " faces." IT muft not be omitted that there is no place... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish fiction - 1773 - 234 pages
...thro' life, that the poorer the gueft, the better pleafed he ever is with being treated ; and as fome men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, fo I was 'by nature an admirer of happy human faces* However, when any one of our relations was found... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 212 pages
...and blood, they should sit with us at the same table. So that if we had not very rich , we generally had very happy friends about us; for this remark will...life, that the poorer the guest the better pleased he erer is with being treated ; and as some men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip, or the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 106 pages
...and blood, they mould fit with us at the fame table. So that if we had not very rich, we generally had very happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the gueft, the better pleafed he ever is with being treated ; and as fome men gaze with admiration at the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 252 pages
...and blood, they fhould fit with us at the fame table. So that if we had not very rich, w« generally had very happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer thcgueft, the better pleafed he ever is with being treated ; and as fome men gaze with admiration at... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 pages
...and blood, they should sit with ut at the same table. So that if we had not very rich, we generally had very happy friends about us ; for this remark...men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip, and others are smitten with the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1801 - 424 pages
...and blood, they fhould fit with us at the fame table. So that if we had not very rich, we generally 'had very happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the gueft, the better pleafed he ever is with being treated : and as fome men gaze with admiration at the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1808 - 216 pages
...not very rich, we generally had very happy, friends about us; for this remark will hold good throngh life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being treated ; and as some men gaae with admiration at the colours of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 262 pages
...and blood,, they should sit with us at the same table. So that if we had not very rich, we generally had very happy friends about us; for this remark will...treated; and as some men gaze with admiration at the colors of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...and blood, they should sit with us at the same table : so that if we had not very rich, we generally ; it stands swinging reproaches at you every time...Dessein, — I have no interest Except the interest, said co« lours of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces.... | |
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