"As a bird that had been frighted from its nest, my affections out-went my haste, and hovered around my little fire-side, with all the rapture of expectation."
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale
68 entries in the ESTC (1766, 1767, 1769, 1772, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1797, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See also Oliver Goldsmith, <u>The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. Supposed to be Written by Himself</u>, 2 vols. (Salisbury: B. Collins, 1766). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113759305&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004897279.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004897279.0001.002">Vol. II</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Oliver Goldsmith, <u>The Vicar of Wakefield</u>, ed. Stephen Coote (London and New York: Penguin Books, 1986).