| Charles W F Fischer- Fischart - German language - 1872 - 230 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 (p. 174) to play for people of fashion ; but they always thought my performance... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...amusement into a present means of subsistence. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but also a subsistence for the next day." He thus by expedients worked his way through Flanders, parts... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...subsistence. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards night-fall, I played one ft tnv •no« merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence f >r the next day.1' So »ko the lines In " The Traveller," In Ule picture of the Swiss— 11 And haply,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1876 - 128 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 In all the foreign universities and convents there are upon certain days philosophical theses maintained... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1877 - 526 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...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,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played one of my merry tunes; and that procured me not only a lodging but subsistence for the next day.' 243. Choir, band of dancers; as Gr. choros, Lat. chorus. Cf. Lytton, Pausanias, the Spartan, Bk. III.,... | |
| Emil Otto - German language - 1878 - 188 pages
...other parts of Germany. " Whenever I approached," he said, " a peasant's house toward night-fall,4 I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured...lodging, but subsistence for the next day; but in truth, I must own, whenever I attempted 133. M) entertain persons of a higher rank, they always thought my... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 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 In all the foreign universities and convents there are upon certain days philosophical theses maintained... | |
| 1879 - 528 pages
...amusement into a present means of subsistence. 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." 18o THE LITTLE GLEANER. ANECDOTES OF THE DOG. flHE dog has been a domestic animal for many centuries.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1880 - 380 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,... | |
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