 | Oliver Goldsmith - English language - 1847 - 376 pages
...sprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, 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 - 1847 - 290 pages
...sprightly-in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house, toward nightfall, 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 - 1847 - 558 pages
...Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of my most merry tunes and thut cing the learner, but perhaps loading him with trifling subtletie I once or twice attempted to play for people of fashion ; but they always thought my performance odious,... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...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... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 1294 pages
...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... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...their wants. Whenever 1 approached a peasant's bouse towards nightfall, 1 played on the German flute one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not...only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day. 1 once or twice attempted to play for people of fashion; but they always thought my performance odious,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of my merriest tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day ; but in truth I must own, whenever I attempted to entertain persons of a higher rank, they always thought my performance... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 402 pages
...their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of my merriest tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day ; but in truth I must own, whenever I attempted to entertain persons of a higher rank, they always thought my performance... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 372 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
