 | Katharine Worth - 2001 - 204 σελίδες
...special province ever since Oliver Goldsmith's Mr Hardcastle defended to his wife his love of 'everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.. . .', ending with the tactless coda, to his disgruntled wife: 'and, I believe, Dorothy (taking her... | |
 | Randy Voorhees - 2001 - 260 σελίδες
...has nothing else to count. —Ralph Waldo Emerson. US poet. essayist. and lecturer I love everything that's old old friends. old times. old manners. old books. old wine. —Oliver Goldsmith. English essayist. poet. and novelist Rest is for the dead. —Thomas Carlyle.... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 2003 - 552 σελίδες
...to trust, and old authors to read. — Francis Bacon, quoting Alonzo of Aragon • I love everything that's old — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Oliver Goldsmith • Excellent wine generates enthusiasm. And whatever you do with enthusiasm is... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 σελίδες
...his longwinded stories about Prince Eugene and the duke of Marlborough. He says, " I love everything that's old — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine," and he might have added, " old stories." Mrs. Hardcastle, a very " genteel " lady indeed. Mr. Hardcastle... | |
 | Peter Thomson - 2006 - 259 σελίδες
...LEWIS, for instance, whose gaiety of limb CARDS OF THE DAY, MR. CHARLES MATHEWS. I love everything that's old. Old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. Ooldsmith. — »S7te Stoops to Oom/ua; act 1 , au ) Figure 26. Charles Mathews the Younger. Every... | |
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Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company. Our best visitors are old Mrs. Oddfish, the... 
