| Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 pages
...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 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,... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 358 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 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...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 - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...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 - 1857 - 546 pages
...them 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...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 - 1858 - 114 pages
...amusement into a present means of sub$istence. 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." By means of this and other expedients he worked his way through Flanders (stopping at Louvain), parts... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...im-ani of lubaUtcnce. Whenever I nppronched a {teaaanl'it houoe towards niidit-fiill, I played one of . most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence tir Uie next day." •1*0 tbe lines in "The Traveller," In tbe picture- ofthe Swiss— "And haply,... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...his ilute ; and " whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall," he beautifully says, " I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured...only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day." The remembrance of the festive joy which his merry pipe produced at such times is finely recalled in... | |
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