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Page xi
It ought to be added that Oliver , though by birth one of the Englishry , and though
connected by numerous ties with the Established Church , never showed the
least sign of that contemptuous antipathy with which , in his days , the ruling ...
It ought to be added that Oliver , though by birth one of the Englishry , and though
connected by numerous ties with the Established Church , never showed the
least sign of that contemptuous antipathy with which , in his days , the ruling ...
Page xv
about this part of his life , ought to be received with great caution ; for strict
veracity was never one of his virtues ; and a man who is ordinarily inaccurate in
narration , is likely to be more than ordinarily inaccurate when he talks about his
own ...
about this part of his life , ought to be received with great caution ; for strict
veracity was never one of his virtues ; and a man who is ordinarily inaccurate in
narration , is likely to be more than ordinarily inaccurate when he talks about his
own ...
Page xvi
The subject was one on which he never liked to talk . It is probable that he was
incompetent to perform the duties of the place . Then he presented himself at
Surgeon ' s Hall for examination , as mate to a naval hospital . Even to so humble
a ...
The subject was one on which he never liked to talk . It is probable that he was
incompetent to perform the duties of the place . Then he presented himself at
Surgeon ' s Hall for examination , as mate to a naval hospital . Even to so humble
a ...
Page xxiii
... for observing the world in which he lives so carelessly , that his portraits bear
no resemblance to the originals , for exhibiting as copies from real life monstrous
combinations of things which never were and never could be found together .
... for observing the world in which he lives so carelessly , that his portraits bear
no resemblance to the originals , for exhibiting as copies from real life monstrous
combinations of things which never were and never could be found together .
Page xxiv
He had assuredly never seen in England all the inhabitants of such a paradise
turned out of their homes in one day , and forced to emigrate in a body to America
. The hamlet he had probably seen in Kent ; the ejectment he had probably seen
...
He had assuredly never seen in England all the inhabitants of such a paradise
turned out of their homes in one day , and forced to emigrate in a body to America
. The hamlet he had probably seen in Kent ; the ejectment he had probably seen
...
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| Title | Poetical Works |
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1862 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 mär. 2009 |
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