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... Traveller ; or , A Prospect of Society . 1 The Deserted Village .. 27 Edwin and Angelina .. 53 The Haunch of Venison . 67 Retaliation .. Postscript ... The Captivity .. Threnodia Augustalis .. 75 86 89 107 MISCELLANIES . The Double ...
... Traveller ; or , A Prospect of Society . 1 The Deserted Village .. 27 Edwin and Angelina .. 53 The Haunch of Venison . 67 Retaliation .. Postscript ... The Captivity .. Threnodia Augustalis .. 75 86 89 107 MISCELLANIES . The Double ...
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... traveller to his friends . All these works were anonymous ; but some of them were well known to be Goldsmith's ; and he gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged . He was , indeed , emphatically a popular ...
... traveller to his friends . All these works were anonymous ; but some of them were well known to be Goldsmith's ; and he gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged . He was , indeed , emphatically a popular ...
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... a poem , entitled the Traveller . It was the first work to which he had put his name ; and it at once raised him to the rank of a legitimate Eng- lish classic . The opinion of the most skilful critics MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH . xix.
... a poem , entitled the Traveller . It was the first work to which he had put his name ; and it at once raised him to the rank of a legitimate Eng- lish classic . The opinion of the most skilful critics MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH . xix.
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... Traveller differs from all Gold- smith's other writings . In general , his designs were bad , and his execution good . In the Trav- eller , the execution , though deserving of much praise , is far inferior to the design . No philo ...
... Traveller differs from all Gold- smith's other writings . In general , his designs were bad , and his execution good . In the Trav- eller , the execution , though deserving of much praise , is far inferior to the design . No philo ...
Page xxi
... Traveller and the Vicar of Wakefield together . The plot of the Good- natured Man is , like almost all Goldsmith's plots , very ill constructed . But some passages are ex- quisitely ludicrous ; much more ludicrous , indeed , than MEMOIR ...
... Traveller and the Vicar of Wakefield together . The plot of the Good- natured Man is , like almost all Goldsmith's plots , very ill constructed . But some passages are ex- quisitely ludicrous ; much more ludicrous , indeed , than MEMOIR ...
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