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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Page 230
by Nathan Drake - 1810 - 499 pages
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...to please. Goldsmith's Retaliation. To eoxeombs averse, yet most eivilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphasls, Correggios and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. Goldsmith's Retaliation....
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The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet moat civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Kaphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff f POSTSCRIPT. After the...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering ; When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,** and only took snuff. • Vide pa°re 28....
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life

Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raffaelles, Correggios, and stuff, lie shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT." HERE Whitefoord"...
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Biographical sketch. Poetical extracts. Miscellaneous essays. From The bee ...

Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart ; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios, and He shifted his trumpet,3 and only took snuff. [stuff, POSTSCRIPT. [After the...
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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...

William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1859 - 854 pages
...faces, — his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering; When they judg'd bm ꫫ i Λ c޴y C ӧ Pqf Qy as &UeH1 Y&. tlieir Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuH'." Sir Joshua was...
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Anecdote Biography

John Timbs - Art - 1860 - 424 pages
...every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. It is...
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Poems, Plays and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 570 pages
...every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT....
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Life

Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing: When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his 83 trumpet, and only took snuff. 82 Vide page 78. 38...
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Lives of wits and humourists, Volume 1

John Timbs - Humorists, English - 1862 - 422 pages
...every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing : When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff. By flattery...
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