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I...chose a wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,
And curs of low degree.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
And 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?
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad
When he put on his clothes.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
I was ever of the opinion that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
It 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.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
I armed her against the censures of the world; showed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
No flocks that range the valley free
To slaughter I condemn;
Taught by that Power that pities me,
I learn to pity them:
But from the mountain’s grassy side
A guiltless feast I bring;
A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied,
And water from the spring.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
The 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.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)