| 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... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...charming book renders 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...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...charming book renders the pleasure it affords more permanent. We read the Vicar of Wdkefield in youth and in age — We return to it again and again, and...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... | |
| 1825 - 610 pages
...charming book renders 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...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... | |
| William Goodhugh - Best books - 1827 - 402 pages
...is one of the best and 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...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 358 pages
...charming book renders the 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 530 pages
...charming book renders the pleasure it affords more permanent. We read ' The Vicar of Wukefield' in youth and in age, — we return to it again and again, and...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... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 pages
...charming hook renders 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...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Bookbinding - 1845 - 220 pages
...charming book renders 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...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... | |
| Thomas Kibble Hervey - Christmas - 1845 - 436 pages
...charming book renders 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...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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