02c. 1751 ADA night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,— A cap by night, a stocking all the day.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
03c. 1751 ADThis same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
04c. 1751 ADAll his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
07c. 1751 ADI love everything that 's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
09c. 1751 ADThe genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
12c. 1751 ADWe sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
14c. 1751 ADThe premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
15c. 1751 ADI find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellect too.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
16c. 1751 ADTurn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
19c. 1751 ADAnd what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
20c. 1751 ADThe sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
22c. 1751 ADThey would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
23c. 1751 ADIt has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
24c. 1751 ADTo what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?Oliver Goldsmith / quote ↗
