 | 730 pàgines
...fubfiftence for the next <Say. I once or twice attempted to play for people of fafi.-.jn ; but they ftill thought my performance odious, and never rewarded...trifle. This was to me the more extraordinary, as whenever 1 ufed formerly to play for company, when playing was my amufemtnt, my mufic never failed... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 106 pàgines
...lodging, but fubfiilence for the next day. I oiice or twice attempted to play for people of fafhion ; but they always thought my performance odious, and...rewarded me even with a trifle. ' This was to me the more exliaordi' nary, as wherever I ufed in better ' days to play for company, when ' playing was my amufement,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 252 pàgines
...I played one of the moft merry tunes, ' and that procured me riot only a lodging, but fubfiftence ' for the next day. I once or twice attempted to play for ' people of fafhion ; but they always thought my perform' ance odious, and never rewarded me even with a trifle.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 pàgines
...their wants. Whenever I approach= ed a peasant's house towards nighufall, I played one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but...once or twice attempted to play for people of fashion ; bnt they always thought my performance odious, and never rewarded me even with a trifle. This was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...'bouse toward nightfall," he used to say, " I played one of my most merry " tunes ; and that generally procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day : but, in truth, (his constant expression) I must " own, whenever I attempted to entertain persons... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1801 - 424 pàgines
...fubfiftence for the next day. " I once or twiee attempted to play to people of " fafhion, but they ftill thought my performance " odious, and never rewarded me even with a " trifle." His claffical learning procured him also entertainment at the monafteries, efpecially thofe of the,... | |
 | 1804 - 286 pàgines
...to" wards night-fall,'" he used to say, " I played one of ' my most merry tunes, and that generally procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next ' day : but, in truth" (his constant expression; " 1 roust own, whenever I attempted to entertain persons... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pàgines
...house towards nightfall," he used to say, " I played one of my most merry tunes, and that generally procured me not only a lodging, but subsistence for the next day; " but in truth," his constant expression, " I must own, whenever I attempted to entertain persons of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pàgines
...I approached a peasant's house towards nightfall, I played on the German flute one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but...trifle. This was to me the more extraordinary ; as whenever I used in better days to play for company, when playing was my amusement, my music never failed... | |
 | 1808 - 844 pàgines
...approached a peasant's housie towards nightfall, i played on the German flute one of my most merry tunes, and that procured me not only a lodging, but...but they always thought my performance odious, and ne\-er rewarded me, even with a trifle. This was to me the more extraordinary; as whenever I used in... | |
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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... 
