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Page xxxvii
... Sir Joshua took another trip to Paris , from which he had scarcely returned when Mr. Bennet Langton renewed , in a very pressing manner , an invitation which he had given to him and Goldsmith to spend some part of the autumn with him ...
... Sir Joshua took another trip to Paris , from which he had scarcely returned when Mr. Bennet Langton renewed , in a very pressing manner , an invitation which he had given to him and Goldsmith to spend some part of the autumn with him ...
Page xxxviii
... Sir Joshua my impatient curiosity to see Dr. Gold- sinith , and he promised I should do so on the first opportunity . Soon afterwards Goldsmith came to dine with him , and imme- diately on my entering the room , Sir Joshua , with a ...
... Sir Joshua my impatient curiosity to see Dr. Gold- sinith , and he promised I should do so on the first opportunity . Soon afterwards Goldsmith came to dine with him , and imme- diately on my entering the room , Sir Joshua , with a ...
Page xxxix
... Joshua , a poem , by a poet already alluded to , was presented to Sir Joshua , by his servant , from the author . Goldsmith immediately laid hold of it and began to read it , and at every line cut almost through the paper with his ...
... Joshua , a poem , by a poet already alluded to , was presented to Sir Joshua , by his servant , from the author . Goldsmith immediately laid hold of it and began to read it , and at every line cut almost through the paper with his ...
Page xl
... Sir Joshua , of making it the sub- ject of an historical composition , or having the story of Count Ugolino in his thoughts . Being exposed in the picture - gallery , along with his other works , it was seen either by Mr. Edmund Burke ...
... Sir Joshua , of making it the sub- ject of an historical composition , or having the story of Count Ugolino in his thoughts . Being exposed in the picture - gallery , along with his other works , it was seen either by Mr. Edmund Burke ...
Page xli
... Sir Joshua Reynolds's table , the conversation turned on the merits of that well - known tragedy , Otway's Venice Preserved , which Goldsmith highly extolled , asserting that of all tragedies it was the one nearest in excellence to ...
... Sir Joshua Reynolds's table , the conversation turned on the merits of that well - known tragedy , Otway's Venice Preserved , which Goldsmith highly extolled , asserting that of all tragedies it was the one nearest in excellence to ...
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