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Page xii
... once derided him , ransacked their memory for the events of his early years , and recited repartees and couplets which had dropped from him , and which , though little noticed at the time , were supposed , a quarter of a century later ...
... once derided him , ransacked their memory for the events of his early years , and recited repartees and couplets which had dropped from him , and which , though little noticed at the time , were supposed , a quarter of a century later ...
Page xvi
... books , which , bound in gilt paper and adorned with hideous woodcuts , appeared in the window of the once far - famed shop at the corner of Saint Paul's Churchyard ; An Inquiry into the State of Polite Learning xvi MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH .
... books , which , bound in gilt paper and adorned with hideous woodcuts , appeared in the window of the once far - famed shop at the corner of Saint Paul's Churchyard ; An Inquiry into the State of Polite Learning xvi MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH .
Page xix
... 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.
... 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.
Page xxx
... expense lay . He had been from boyhood a gam- bler , and at once the most sanguine and the most unskilful of gamblers . For a time he put off the day of inevitable ruin by temporary expedients . He obtained XXX MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH .
... expense lay . He had been from boyhood a gam- bler , and at once the most sanguine and the most unskilful of gamblers . For a time he put off the day of inevitable ruin by temporary expedients . He obtained XXX MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH .
Page xxxi
... once said ; " I make it a rule to pre- scribe only for my friends . " " Pray , dear Doctor , " said Beauclerk , " alter your rule ; and prescribe only for your enemies . " Goldsmith now , in spite of this excellent advice , prescribed ...
... once said ; " I make it a rule to pre- scribe only for my friends . " " Pray , dear Doctor , " said Beauclerk , " alter your rule ; and prescribe only for your enemies . " Goldsmith now , in spite of this excellent advice , prescribed ...
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