 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1801 - 424 pages
...accepted the loan of three half guineas. " And now, dear mother, he concluded, after having ftruggled fo hard to come home to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to fee me. — She and all prefent expreffed their joy at his return, and enjoined him to tranfmit the... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1802 - 572 pages
...power to entertain and divert him. At his departure, he refused the offer of the servant and the horse, and only accepted the loan of three half guineas....highest respect,. Goldsmith removed, about the year 1752, from Ireland to Edinburgh, for the purpose of studying physic. • Among many instances which... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pages
...power to entertain and divert him. At his departure he refused the offer of the servant and horse, and only accepted the loan of three half guineas....enjoined him to transmit the most early and grateful acknowledgments to his kind benefactor. " His uncle Contarine, who was also reconciled to him, now... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 564 pages
...to whom he said with characteristic simplicity on observing her coolness, " And now, my dear mother, after having struggled so hard to come home to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me." The original of this letter is not to be found ; but a copy seems to have been in the possession of... | |
 | sir James Prior - English literature - 1837 - 550 pages
...to whom he said with characteristic simplicity on observing her coolness, " And now, my dear mother, after having struggled so hard to come home to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me." The original of this letter is not to be found; but a copy seems to have been in the possession of... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...to whom he said with characteristic simplicity on observing her coolness, " And now, my dear mother, after having struggled so hard to come home to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me." The original of this letter is not to be found ; but a copy seems to have been in the possessibn of... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1837 - 522 pages
...When his mother received him with coolness, he js related to have said, " And now, my dear mother, after having struggled so hard to come home to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me." The folio wing letter, he penned at the time, must have removed all her vexation. " MY DEAR MOTHER,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 554 pages
...to whom he said with characteristic simplicity on observing her coolness, " And now, my dear mother, after having struggled so hard to come home to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me." The original of this letter is not to be found ; but a copy seems to have been in the possession of... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 1294 pages
...appears from the simple remark he is said to have made to his mother. 'And now, ' my dear mo' ther, after having ' struggled so hard to come home to you, I wonder you ' are not more rejoiced to see me.' He afterwards addressed a clever though somewhat cavalier letter to her from his brother's house ;... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...said to have made to his mother. 'And now, ' my dear mo' ther, after having ' struggled so hard te come home to you, I wonder you ' are not more rejoiced to see me.' He afterwards addressed a clever though somewhat cavalier letter to her from his brother's house ;... | |
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And now, my dear mother," he ended, seeing the old lady's face gloom, " after having struggled so hard to come home to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me. 
