 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1801 - 424 pages
...fhort, by a very little practice as a phyfician, and a very little reputation as a poet, I make a fhift to live. Nothing is more apt to introduce us to the gates of the Mufes than poverty; verty ; but it were well if they only left us at the door ; the mifchief is, they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pages
...know my present situation. As there is nothing in it at which I should blush, or which mankind could censure, I see no reason for making it a secret ;...left us at the door ; the mischief is, they sometimes choose to give us their company at the entertainment, and Want, instead of being gentleman-usher, often... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 568 pages
...know my present situation. As there is nothing in it at which I should blush, or which mankind could censure, I see no reason for making it a secret. In...a very little reputation as a poet, I make a shift tb live. Nothing is more apt to introduce us to the gates of the Muses than poverty ; but it were well... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 438 pages
...know my present situation. As there is nothing in it, at which I should blush, or which mankind could censure, I see no reason for making it a secret; in...introduce us to the gates of the Muses than poverty ; verty ; but it were well if they only left us at the door ; the mischief is, they sometimes choose... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 428 pages
...know my present situation. As there is nothing in it, at which I should blush, or which mankind could censure, I see no reason for making it a secret; in...introduce us to the gates of the Muses than poverty ; verty ; but it were well if they only left us at the door ; the mischief is, they sometimes choose... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...had leisure to have recourse to his pen ; and by his combined exertions in literature and medicine, " by a very little practice' as a physician, and a very little reputation as a poet," he made " shift to live." While thus endeavouring to support himself, he received an offer from the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...know my present situation. As there is nothing in it at which I should brush, or which mankind could censure, I see no reason for making it a secret. In...gates of the Muses than poverty ; but it were well for us if they only left us at the door — the mischief is, they sometimes choose to give us their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...know my present situation. As there is nothing in it at which I should blush, or which mankind could , I he MUSTS than poverty ; but it were well for us if they only left us at the door — the misclúef... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 572 pages
...know my present situation. As there is nothing in it at which I should blush, or which mankind could censure, I see no reason for making it a secret. In...left us at the door. The mischief is, they sometimes choose to give us their company at the entertainment; and Want, instead of being gentleman-usher, often... | |
 | 1837 - 552 pages
...know my present situation. As there is nothing in it at which 1 should blush, or which mankind could censure, I see no reason for making it a secret. In...left us at the door. The mischief is, they sometimes choose to give us their company to the entertainment; and want, instead of being gentleman-usher, often... | |
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I suppose you desire to know my present situation. As there is nothing in it at which I should blush, or which mankind could censure, I see no reason for making it a secret. In short, by a very little practice as a physician, and a very little reputation... 
