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Page xi
... than usual severity . His stature was small , and his limbs ill put together . Among boys , little tenderness is shown to personal de- fects ; and the ridicule excited by poor Oliver's appearance MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH . xi.
... than usual severity . His stature was small , and his limbs ill put together . Among boys , little tenderness is shown to personal de- fects ; and the ridicule excited by poor Oliver's appearance MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH . xi.
Page xii
Oliver Goldsmith. fects ; and the ridicule excited by poor Oliver's appearance , was heightened by a peculiar sim- plicity and a disposition to blunder which he retained to the last . He became the common butt of boys and masters , was ...
Oliver Goldsmith. fects ; and the ridicule excited by poor Oliver's appearance , was heightened by a peculiar sim- plicity and a disposition to blunder which he retained to the last . He became the common butt of boys and masters , was ...
Page xxvii
... poor Pol . " Chamier declared that it was a hard exercise of faith to believe that so foolish a chat- terer could have really written the Traveller . Even Boswell could say , with contemptuous com- passion , that he liked very well to ...
... poor Pol . " Chamier declared that it was a hard exercise of faith to believe that so foolish a chat- terer could have really written the Traveller . Even Boswell could say , with contemptuous com- passion , that he liked very well to ...
Page xli
... poor Goldsmith , who left this world on the 4th of April , 1774 ; the first , too , of those on whom the epitaphs had been so playfully written , as I have before alluded to in another place . Just before his death , he had nearly ...
... poor Goldsmith , who left this world on the 4th of April , 1774 ; the first , too , of those on whom the epitaphs had been so playfully written , as I have before alluded to in another place . Just before his death , he had nearly ...
Page xliii
... poor adventurer , to Jamaica , where he lived for many years without ever renewing an intercourse - with his friends , and by whom he was , of course , supposed to be dead ; though Oliver may at first have imagined that he had returned ...
... poor adventurer , to Jamaica , where he lived for many years without ever renewing an intercourse - with his friends , and by whom he was , of course , supposed to be dead ; though Oliver may at first have imagined that he had returned ...
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