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" We read The Vicar of Wakefield in youth and in age ; we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature. "
A century of anecdote from 1760 to 1860 - Page 36
by John Timbs - 1864
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The Hermes; a literary, moral and scientific journal

206 pages
...lie pleasure 'it affords more permanent. We ead the Vicar of Wakcfield in youth and in age. refurn to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so weir to econcife us to human nature. Whether we,cbiise lie pathetic and distressing incidents of the...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...pleasure it affords more permanent. We read the Vicar of Wdkefield in youth and in age — We return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an...so well to reconcile us to human nature. Whether we chuse the pathetic and distressing incidents of the fire, and the scenes at the jail, or the lighter...
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The novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...pleasure it affords more permanent. We read the Vicar of Wakefield in youth and in age — We return for husbands to get wives." — " And for" wives to manage their husbands," interrupted I. "It is a chuse the pathetic and distressing incidents of the fire, and the scenes at the jail, or the lighter...
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Lives of the novelists, Volumes 1-2

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...the pleasure it affords more permanent. We read the Vicar of Wakefield in youth and in age. We return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an...the pathetic and distressing incidents of the fire, and the scenes at the jail, or the lighter and humorous parts of the story., we find the best and truest...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 6

1825 - 610 pages
...pleasure it affords more permanent. We read the Vicar of Wakefield in youth and in age — We return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an...the pathetic and distressing incidents of the fire, and the scenes at the jail, or the lighter and humorous parts of the story, we find the best and truest...
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The English Gentleman's Library Manual: Or, A Guide to the Formation of a ...

William Goodhugh - Best books - 1827 - 402 pages
...most pleasing pictures ever designed. We rend the Vicar of Wakefield in youth and in age. We return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an...contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature. Sir Walter Scott. JJF. SAGE. Diable Boiteux. There is no book in existence in which so much of the...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 358 pages
...pleasure it affords more permanent. \V*e read the f^icar of PT'akefield in youth and in age — we return to it again and again, and bless the memory, of an author who contrives so>N well to reconcile us to human nature. Whether we ehoosje the pathetic 'and distressing incidents...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: The vicar of Wakefield ...

Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 530 pages
...pleasure it affords more permanent. We read ' The Vicar of Wukefield' in youth and in age, — we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an...humorous parts of the story, we find the best and tntest sentiments enforced in the most beautiful language ; and perhaps there are few characters of...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 6

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 pages
...pleasure it affords more permanent. We read the Vicar of Wakefield in youth and in age — We return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to buman nature. Whether we choose the pathetic and distressing incidents of the fire, and the scenes...
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The Book of Christmas: Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions ...

Thomas Kibble Hervey - Christmas - 1845 - 436 pages
...pleasure it affords more permanent. We read ' The Vicar of Wakefield' in youth and in age,— we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an...and distressing incidents of the fire, the scenes of the jail, or the lighter and humorous parts of the story, we find the best and truest sentiments...
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