 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 pages
...company. An ugly and a poor man is society only for himself ; and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances,...splenetic, and perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer to this. I know you cannot send much news from Ballymahon, but such as it is send... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 pages
...company. An ugly and poor man is society only for himself; and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances,...dear Bob such blessings, while I may sit down and laiigh at the world and at myself—the most ridiculous object in it. But you see I am grown downright... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1902 - 336 pages
...sixteen Peers for Scotland ; and to have sold gloves •n the lobby at this and other public assemblages. to look charming in the eyes of the fair. Nor do I...while I may sit down and laugh at the world and at myself—the most ridiculous object in it. But you see I am grown downright splenetic, and perhaps... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pages
...company. An ugly and poor man is society only for himself ; and such society the world lets me enjoy 25 in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances,...it. But you see I am grown downright splenetic, and 30 perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer to this. I know you cannot send me much news... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 432 pages
...have sold gloves in the lobby at this and other public assemblages. society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances,...such blessings, while I may sit down and laugh at 5 the world and at myself — the most ridiculous object in it. But you see I am grown downright splenetic,... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 482 pages
...himself ; and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance ;" "nor do I envy my dear Bob his blessings, while I may sit down and laugh at the world...and at myself, the most ridiculous object in it," are among his expressions of half bitter, half good-natured candour, in a letter to his cousin Bryanton.... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - Authors, English - 1910 - 370 pages
...them company. An ugly and a poor man is society for himself, and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances,...a person to look charming in the eyes of the fair world. Nor do I envy my dear Bob such blessings, while I may sit down and laugh at the world and at... | |
 | Mabel Duckitt - English letters - 1913 - 488 pages
...them company. An ugly and a poor man is society for himself ; and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances,...a person to look charming in the eyes of the fair world. Nor do I envy my dear Bob such blessings, while I may sit down and laugh at the world and at... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Authors, English - 1928 - 256 pages
...himself and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstance's and Nature a person to look charming in the Eyes of the fair world nor do I envy my Dear Bob such blessings while I may sit down and [laugh at the wor] Jld, and... | |
 | Arts - 1848 - 572 pages
...damaged his mind, and did violence to his conscience. He concludes a random letter to a friend thus: "Fortune has given you circumstances, and nature a...and at myself, the most ridiculous object in it," Having gone through the course at Edinburgh, "after a fashion," he was about to leave for Leyden, to... | |
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tis certain, handsome women here ; and 'tis as certain, they have handsome men to keep them company. An ugly and a poor man is society only for himself ; and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance. Fortune has given you circumstances,... 
