Search -
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith MB Author:Oliver Goldsmith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: panion,perceivingherdanger, instantly plunged intb her relief, and, with some difficulty, brought her in safety to thf opposite shore. By taking the current a li... more »ttle farther up, the rest of the family got safely over, where we had an opportunity of joining our acknowledgments to her's. Her gratitude may be more readily imagined than described : she thanked her deliverer more with looks than words, and continued to lean upon his ana, as if still willing to receive assistance. My wife also hoped one day to have the pleasure of returning his kindness at her own house. Thus, after we were refreshed at the next inn, and had dined together, as Mr. Burchell was going to a different part of the country, he took leave; and Avc pursued our journey. My wife observing as he went, that she liked him extremely, and protesting, that if he bad birth and fortune to entitle him to match into such a family as ovir's, she knew no man she would sooner fix upon. I could not but smile to hear her talk in this lefty strain; but I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend t' make us mere happy. CHAP. IV. A proof that even the humblest for fuse may grant happiness, which depends not on circumstances but constitution. I HE place of our retreat was in a little neighbourhood, consisting of farmers, who tilled their own grounds, and were equal strangers to opulence and poverty. As they had almost all the conveniences of life within themselves, they seldom visited towns xr cities, in search of superfluity. RemoteRemote from the polite, they still retained the primaeval simplicity of manners; and frugal by habit, they scarcely knew that temperance was a virtue. They wrought with chcariulness on days of labour; but observed festivals as intervals of idleness and pleasure. They ...« less