 I had some knowledge of music, with a tolerable voice : I now turned what was once my amusement into a present means of subsistence. I passed among the harmless peasants of Flanders, and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry ;...  The Vicar of Wakefield - Pàgina 133per Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 226 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 730 pàgines
...picluies, medals, intaglios, Flanders, and among fuch of the and antiques of all kind?, for a genFrench as were poor enough to be very merry ; for I ever found them fprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approached a peafant's houfe towards night-full,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 106 pàgines
...into a prefent means of fubfiftence. I parted among the harmlefs peafants of Flanders, and among fuch of the French as were poor enough to be very merry ; for I ever found them fprightly in proportion to their wants. Whenever f approached a peafant's houfe, toward« night-fall... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 252 pàgines
...prefent means of fubfiftence. ' I paffed among the harmlefs peafants of Flanders, and ' among fuch of the French as were poor enough to be very ' merry ; for I everfound them fprightly in proportion to their ' wants. Whenever I approached a peafant's houfe, to'... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 pàgines
...amusement into a present means of sub* sistence. I passed among the harmless peasants of Flan» ders, and among such of the French as were poor enough to be very merry; for I ever found them sprighu ly in proportion to their wants. Whenever I approach= ed a peasant's house towards nighufall,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Hardie - 1801 - 526 pàgines
...Flanders and Germany. " "Whenever I approached," he used to say, '- a peasant's house towards night fall, I played one of my most merry tunes ; and that procured...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 a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1801 - 424 pàgines
...prefent * means of fubfiftence. I pafled among the harm' leis peafants of Flanders, and among fuch of the ' French as were poor enough to be very merry ; for ' I ever found them fprightly in proportion to their * wants. Whenever I approached a peafant's hSbfe ' towards * towards... | |
 | 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
...amusement into a present means of subsistence. " I passed (says he) among the harmless peasants of Flanders, and among such of the French as were poor...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 subsistence... | |
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